It reads てんかわむら — Tenkawa 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 Tenkawa.
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天川村 is read てんかわむら (Tenkawa Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Tenkawa has a population of 1,148 across 176 km², making it the 1571st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 35th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Tenkawa are Kurotaki Mura (7 km), Kawakami Mura (14 km), Shimoichi Cho (14 km).