35305 ／ すおうおおしまちょう
Yamaguchi Prefecture 大島郡They say Bon homecomers sank the island.
Okikamuro fishing settlement01 ／ Ageno-sho Chinese pear (安下庄のシナナシ)
A variety resembling the Tuli pear, native to northern Shandong. The prefecture's record says it exists "nowhere else in Japan". The original tree died in 1971; the present young tree was planted in 1988 from grafted stock kept elsewhere.
02 ／ Government-contract emigrants
In 1885, about 30% of the 944 members of the first official emigrant group to Hawaii were from 大島郡. In the official-emigrant era, 3,913 people went to Hawaii from Suo-Oshima. The town's Japan-Hawaii Immigrant Museum stands in the former home of Fukumoto (福本長右衛門), who returned from abroad.
03 ／ Shochi no Suido (庄地のスイドウ)
A stone-walled waterway runs beneath rice terraces on a slope at roughly 100 to 50 m above sea level. Kuka has 40 such tunnels; the designated one has the oldest style of stonework and a large scale. The prefecture says it has "no known parallel anywhere in Japan".
Living here
The town spans Yashiro Island and other islands: five inhabited and 25 uninhabited. The Oshima Bridge links it to the mainland, and the annual mean temperature is a mild 15.5°C. The tourism association calls it the "mikan island", and the town runs a vacant-house bank. Materials of the folklorist Miyamoto Tsuneichi are kept at the town's Miyamoto Tsuneichi Memorial Museum.
−14% since 2015
21,392 → 14,798
67.48km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
11.5 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 町公式の役場（大島庁舎）の交通案内に「JR西日本、山陽本線「大畠駅」下車バス15分（大島庁舎前バス停下車）」。町公式の防長バス時刻表（防長バス 大島線・2026.4.1改正、町が掲載するPDF）で、平日は大畠駅②のりば→周防大島町大島庁舎前が 7:20→7:36・7:55→8:11・8:20→8:35・10:04→10:19・11:44→11:59・13:21→13:36・14:19→14:34・15:05→15:20・15:52→16:07・17:24→17:40・18:21→18:37（15〜16分） (checked 2026-09-29). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
25.8km
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