It reads やまえむら — Yamae 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 Yamae.
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山江村 is read やまえむら (Yamae Mura). It is a village in Kumamoto 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.
Yamae has a population of 3,196 across 121 km², making it the 1446th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 42nd largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Yamae are Sagara Mura (2 km), Hitoyoshi Shi (3 km), Nishiki Machi (7 km).