It reads しんとうむら — Shinto 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.
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Shintō is a village located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the village had an estimated population of 15,653 in 5,942 households, and a population density of 520 persons per km². The total area of the village is 27.92 square kilometres (10.78 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shinto.
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榛東村 is read しんとうむら (Shinto Mura). It is a village in Gunma 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.
Shinto has a population of 14,193 across 28 km², making it the 1018th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Shinto are Yoshioka Machi (3 km), Shibukawa Shi (10 km), Maebashi Shi (10 km).