It reads たのはたむら — Tanohata 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 Tanohata.
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田野畑村 is read たのはたむら (Tanohata Mura). It is a village in Iwate 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.
Tanohata has a population of 3,008 across 156 km², making it the 1467th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Tanohata are Fudai Mura (9 km), Iwaizumi Cho (13 km), Noda Mura (21 km).