It reads つるいむら — Tsurui 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 Tsurui.
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鶴居村 is read つるいむら (Tsurui Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Tsurui has a population of 2,521 across 572 km², making it the 1499th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 140th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Tsurui are Kushiro Shi (27 km), Shibecha Cho (25 km), Kushiro Cho (28 km).