It reads しらかわむら — Shirakawa 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 Shirakawa.
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白川村 is read しらかわむら (Shirakawa Mura). It is a village in Gifu 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.
Shirakawa has a population of 1,487 across 357 km², making it the 1554th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 38th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Shirakawa are Takayama Shi (36 km), Nomi Shi (36 km), Nanto Shi (36 km).