It reads さめがわむら — Samegawa 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. Samegawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Samegawa.
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鮫川村 is read さめがわむら (Samegawa 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.
Samegawa has a population of 2,984 across 131 km², making it the 1470th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 47th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Samegawa are Furudono Machi (7 km), Asakawa Machi (10 km), Ishikawa Machi (12 km).