It reads るすつむら — Rusutsu 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Rusutsu.
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留寿都村 is read るすつむら (Rusutsu Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Rusutsu has a population of 1,911 across 120 km², making it the 1534th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 155th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Rusutsu are Makkari Mura (6 km), Kimobetsu Cho (8 km), Kyogoku Cho (13 km).