It reads やまとそん — Yamato Son.
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 Yamato.
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大和村 is read やまとそん (Yamato Son). 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.
Yamato has a population of 230,709 across 27 km², making it the 101st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 2nd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Yamato are Amami Shi (11 km), Uken Son (13 km), Tatsugo Cho (20 km).