It reads さけがわむら — Sakegawa 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 Sakegawa.
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鮭川村 is read さけがわむら (Sakegawa Mura). It is a village in Yamagata 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.
The closest municipalities to Sakegawa are Shinjo Shi (7 km), Mamurogawa Machi (8 km), Tozawa Mura (9 km).