It reads しょさんべつむら — Shosanbetsu 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 Shosanbetsu.
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初山別村 is read しょさんべつむら (Shosanbetsu Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Shosanbetsu has a population of 1,125 across 280 km², making it the 1573rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 165th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Shosanbetsu are Haboro Cho (19 km), Enbetsu Cho (22 km), Tomamae Cho (25 km).