It reads しいばそん — Shiiba Son. 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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椎葉村 is read しいばそん (Shiiba Son). It is a village in Miyazaki 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.
Shiiba has a population of 2,483 across 537 km², making it the 1504th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Shiiba are Morotsuka Son (16 km), Gokase Cho (22 km), Mizukami Mura (23 km).