It reads たまかわむら — Tamakawa 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 Tamakawa.
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玉川村 is read たまかわむら (Tamakawa Mura). It is a village in Fukushima 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.
Tamakawa has a population of 6,324 across 47 km², making it the 1287th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Tamakawa are Yabuki Machi (6 km), Kagamiishi Machi (8 km), Ishikawa Machi (9 km).