It reads おおたまむら — Otama Mura. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Otama is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Otama.
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大玉村 is read おおたまむら (Otama Mura). It is a village in Fukushima Prefecture.
村 means "village" and is read mura / son. A village. 村 is read either mura or son, again by local convention rather than by rule.
Otama has a population of 8,932 across 79 km², making it the 1169th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Otama are Motomiya Shi (3 km), Nihonmatsu Shi (8 km), Koriyama Shi (15 km).