It reads やすおかむら — Yasuoka 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Yasuoka.
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泰阜村 is read やすおかむら (Yasuoka 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.
Yasuoka has a population of 1,542 across 65 km², making it the 1552nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 65th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Yasuoka are Shimojo Mura (5 km), Anan Cho (6 km), Tenryu Mura (11 km).