It reads とびしまむら — Tobishima 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 Tobishima.
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飛島村 is read とびしまむら (Tobishima Mura). It is a village in Aichi 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.
Tobishima has a population of 4,596 across 22 km², making it the 1376th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 46th largest of the 50 in Aichi.
The closest municipalities to Tobishima are Kanie Cho (6 km), Kisosaki Cho (6 km), Yatomi Shi (8 km).