It reads となきそん — Tonaki Son. 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 Tonaki.
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渡名喜村 is read となきそん (Tonaki Son). It is a village in Okinawa 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.
Tonaki has a population of 377 across 4 km², making it the 1606th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 41st largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Tonaki are Zamami Son (24 km), Aguni Son (24 km), Tokashiki Son (30 km).