It reads とよおかむら — Toyooka 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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豊丘村 is read とよおかむら (Toyooka Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Toyooka has a population of 6,458 across 77 km², making it the 1281st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 43rd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Toyooka are Matsukawa Machi (4 km), Takagi Mura (6 km), Iida Shi (7 km).