It reads たばやまむら — Tabayama 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Tabayama.
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丹波山村 is read たばやまむら (Tabayama Mura). It is a village in Yamanashi 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.
Tabayama has a population of 508 across 101 km², making it the 1601st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Tabayama are Kosuge Mura (4 km), Okutama Machi (15 km), Koshu Shi (19 km).