It reads しもきたやまむら — Shimokitayama 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 Shimokitayama.
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下北山村 is read しもきたやまむら (Shimokitayama Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Shimokitayama has a population of 733 across 133 km², making it the 1590th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 36th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Shimokitayama are Kitayama Mura (9 km), Totsukawa Mura (15 km), Kamikitayama Mura (16 km).