Omachi Town

Brick substation, now a place to gather.

Kishima Substation, Rengakan

Photo by Pekachu (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Doi Family Residence (土井家住宅)

Townhouse in exterior and layout,farmhouse in its earthen-floored section.

A gable-entrance house facing the Nagasaki Kaidō. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as a hybrid building: a townhouse in exterior and layout, with a farmhouse-style earthen-floored section. Built in the late Edo period (1830–1867), it was originally a sake brewery. It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1974.

Late Edo period, 1830–1867 (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Important Cultural Property since February 1974 (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Dismantled and repaired over 14 months from 1976 (prefecture tourism site)

02 ／ Souke Market (ソウケ市)

A market for woven-bamboo sieves boastsover 300 years of tradition on the old Nagasaki Kaidō.

Photo by Ryouta0411・ソウケ市オフィシャルサイト管理人 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

"Souke" are sieves woven from bamboo. The town announces its Souke Market, which "boasts a tradition of over 300 years," along the old Nagasaki Kaidō in the Honmachi district (around Omachi Higashi Post Office). In 2024, 2025 and 2026 the dates were September 27 to 29.

Over 300 years of tradition (town website)
Held in the Honmachi district along the old Nagasaki Kaidō (town website)
Town announced September 27–29 in 2024, 2025 and 2026

03 ／ Mount Hijiri (聖岳)

Up 792 steps, there is a lookoutwith a view of the whole town.

At 416 m, Mount Hijiri (聖岳) is what the town website calls "the symbol of the town." The prefecture's tourism site says that the observation deck at the summit, reached by 792 steps, overlooks the whole town, and that the shrine above it holds a heart-shaped stone basin.

416 m elevation (town website)
Observation deck beyond 792 steps (prefecture tourism site)
Heart-shaped stone basin at the shrine (prefecture tourism site)

Living here

A town of 11.50 km², nearly diamond-shaped.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

The total area is 11.50 km², 4.46 km east to west and 4.25 km north to south. National Route 34 and the JR Sasebo Line run east-west through the middle of the town, and on the north side an urban area spreads over the foothills leading up to Mount Hijiri. The south is paddy fields, part of the Shiroishi Plain, and the Rokkaku River forms the border with the neighboring municipalities.

People living here: 6,293people
Area: 11.5km²
Households: 2,455households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Omachi Town in Japan33.214°N 130.116°E

Territory of Omachi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.8km

白石町, 武雄市, 江北町, 多久市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Omachi Town isthis kind of town.

01The Kishima Coal Mine Substation Ruins (杵島炭鉱変電所跡), or Omachi Rengakan (大町煉瓦館), is a red-brick building said to have supplied power to the mine facilities and miners' housing from 1927. After the mine closed it passed into private hands, and a volunteer group was formed in 2005. Certified a Saga Prefecture Heritage site in 2020, it now serves as a community space.
02Omachi thrived as a coal-mining town until the Kishima mine closed in 1969, and in 1941 its population passed 24,000. The town's commemorative booklet calls Omachi Elementary School in fiscal 1958 (86 classes, 4,069 pupils) the "era of the nation's largest mammoth school."
03A small town of 11.50 km² near the center of Saga Prefecture. A coal-waste hill (ボタ山) opened as Botayama Wanpaku Park in 2013.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Omachi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗