Onomichi City

The city named Go its own sport.

01 ／ Onomichi Ruins (尾道遺跡)

The area around today's Onomichi Hondoriis found to have once been shoreline.

The Onomichi Ruins are an urban site from the medieval to early modern period, lying 1 to 4 m under almost the whole old town (about 37.3 ha). Close to 200 surveys have followed the first academic dig in 1975, but they cover only about 1% of the site (as of 2019). A white porcelain bowl from the Yuan dynasty's Jingdezhen Shufu kiln came out whole.

Urban site of about 37.3 ha, 1-4 m underground
About 1% surveyed (as of 2019)
First academic dig in 1975

02 ／ Tennei-ji Pagoda and the Rakan (天寧寺の塔と羅漢)

A pagoda said to have had five storieswhen built stands up the temple grounds.

Up the hillside of Tennei-ji (天寧寺), a Soto temple, stands a pagoda (海雲塔) that is an Important Cultural Property. It has three stories now and is said to have had five when built; the city's plan dates it to 1388 (Kakei 2). The temple's rakan (arhat) statues number 526, donated over about 60 years.

The pagoda is a national Important Cultural Property
Built in 1388 (Kakei 2) per the city's plan
526 rakan statues, donated over about 60 years

03 ／ Onomichi Betcha Festival (尾道ベッチャー祭)

Struck by the sasara of three demons,you are said to grow clever.

Held every year from 1 to 3 November at Kibitsuhiko Shrine (吉備津彦神社, also called Ichinomiya Shrine), the festival wards off ill fortune and prays for good health. Young men dressed as the oni Shoki, Soba and Beta go out into town and chase the children who jeer at them, striking them with festival sticks and sasara.

Every year, 1-3 November
Three oni: Shoki, Soba and Beta
Designated a city folk cultural property (1962)

Living here

Senko-ji's bell was selected for Japan's 100 soundscapes.

about 130,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Shinkansen stops here

At Senko-ji (千光寺), on the hillside above the Onomichi Channel, the bell tower was selected for the "100 Soundscapes of Japan to Be Preserved." Innoshima and Ikuchijima are presented, together with Imabari, as islands of the Japan Heritage story "the home base of Japan's largest pirates: the Geiyo Islands" (日本遺産), and Onomichi was also certified in the first year of Japan Heritage.

People living here: 131,170people
Area: 284.89km²
Households: 57,519households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,100yen
Healthcare: 11 hospitals ／ 118 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-28 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。2006-01-10 に編入合併（因島市・瀬戸田町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —30 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Onomichi City in Japan34.409°N 133.205°E

to OsakaSanyo Shinkansen89min

Travel times follow JR西日本「JRおでかけネット」区間時刻表『東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り』（https://timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/1796 ・2026年9月29日〈火〉のダイヤ）。この日にページを取り直し、新大阪『発』・新尾道『発』の欄が本体保存の表（$SP/jr-shinkansen-down-20260929.json）と同じことを確かめた。新尾道に停まり、新大阪・新神戸・岡山を出て乗り換えなしで着くのは『こだま』（と一部の始発が岡山・姫路のこだま）だけ (checked 2026-09-29). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Onomichi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

35.2km

Hiroshima Prefecture: 三原市, 福山市, 府中市, 世羅町
Ehime Prefecture: 今治市

Onomichi City isthis kind of town.

01Onomichi has named Go its city sport. In Innoshima's Tonoura, a memorial museum has rebuilt the birthplace of the Edo-period player Honinbo Shusaku from the surviving floor plan of his old home.
02Since it became a shipping-storehouse (kurashikichi) port of the Bingo Ota estate in 1169, Onomichi has prospered as a port town. An urban site lies under the old town, and lanes have linked the temples on the slopes with the seaside hamlets.
03On the islands of the roughly 70 km Shimanami Kaido are the lemons said to have originated in Ikuchijima (Setoda), the Oyumi archery ritual of Momoshima, and the five hundred rakan of Mt. Shirataki on Innoshima.

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Onomichi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗