It reads とうかいむら — Tokai 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 Tokai.
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東海村 is read とうかいむら (Tokai Mura). It is a village in Ibaraki 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.
Tokai has a population of 2,943, making it the 1474th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 42nd largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Tokai are Naka Shi (6 km), Hitachinaka Shi (8 km), Hitachiota Shi (8 km).