It reads としまむら — Toshima 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 Toshima.
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十島村 is read としまむら (Toshima Mura). It is a village in Kagoshima 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.
Toshima has a population of 761 across 101 km², making it the 1588th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 42nd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Toshima are Mishima Mura (0 km), Kagoshima Shi (2 km), Hioki Shi (15 km).