It reads さいむら — Sai 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 Sai.
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佐井村 is read さいむら (Sai 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.
Sai has a population of 1,804 across 135 km², making it the 1540th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Sai are Oma Machi (12 km), Kazamaura Mura (13 km), Mutsu Shi (32 km).