It reads とつかわむら — Totsukawa 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 Totsukawa.
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十津川村 is read とつかわむら (Totsukawa Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Totsukawa has a population of 3,046 across 672 km², making it the 1456th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Totsukawa are Shimokitayama Mura (15 km), Kitayama Mura (18 km), Nosegawa Mura (24 km).