Toshimushi's Omuta Page
Omuta City is situated in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture and facing Ariake Sea with a population of 142,156 as of June 2000. Omuta had been famous for a coal industry, which was started in the middle of the Edo era (1603-1867) and had been developed through the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa era.
