It reads ろっかしょむら — Rokkasho 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.
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Rokkasho is a village in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 March 2023, the village had an estimated population of 9,845 in 4988 households, and a population density of 40 persons per km². The total area of the village is 252.68 square kilometres (97.56 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Rokkasho.
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六ヶ所村 is read ろっかしょむら (Rokkasho Mura). It is a village in Aomori 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.
Rokkasho has a population of 10,099 across 253 km², making it the 1138th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Rokkasho are Yokohama Machi (18 km), Noheji Machi (25 km), Tohoku Machi (30 km).