It reads とうほうむら — Toho 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 Toho.
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東峰村 is read とうほうむら (Toho Mura). It is a village in Fukuoka 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.
Toho has a population of 1,895 across 52 km², making it the 1535th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 60th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Toho are Hita Shi (10 km), Ukiha Shi (11 km), Asakura Shi (19 km).