Moving to Ome City

CHAPTER 01First, what kind of place Ome is

The north-western corner of Tokyo, 40–60 km west of the centre. It is the gateway to Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, and more than 60% of its total 103.31 km² is forest. Running east to west through the city is the Tama River. The population is 128,311 in 67,164 households (1 August Reiwa 8, resident register).

The Mitake Gorge is one of the Ministry of the Environment's 100 Best Waters

The Mitake Gorge, on the Tama River in the west of the city, was chosen for the Ministry of the Environment's 100 Best Waters in Showa 60 (1985). The city describes the area as "an especially beautiful landscape of clear water". On the east side, meanwhile, are the city hall, the Ome General Medical Centre, planned residential districts and the Ken-O Expressway interchange. Having both urban facilities and the entrance to a national park inside one city is what Ome is.

Map of Ome City

You can zoom and pan. The marker is Ome City Hall (Higashi-Ome 1-chome). The further east (right) you go the flatter and more built-up it becomes; the further west (left), the more it becomes the Tama River gorge and the mountains; to the north (up) are the satoyama of Nariki and Osoki.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors

The six areas, and where the stations sit

The JR Ome Line runs east to west through the city, and 10 of its 11 stations are inside Ome City (Kaneko Station is in Iruma City). ★ marks the stations where interchanges or service frequencies change. Tachikawa Station is off this map, about 15 km to the south-east — 32 minutes and ¥341 from Ome Station. The positions, bearings and scale are based on real coordinates (stations from OpenStreetMap, points from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan). You can scroll sideways.

CHAPTER 02Six areas, and life in each

Across 13 km from east to west, the median ranges from ¥14,800,000 to ¥28,490,000 and the elevation from 137 m to 514 m. East of Ome Station or west of it. The north bank of the Tama River or the south. Those are the biggest dividing lines in Ome.

CHAPTER 03Trains and cars — how you get around

Transport in Ome is the single JR Ome Line. Even so, it takes you to Shinjuku with no change, and runs 4 to 5 times an hour both in the morning and during the day. Of the 136 houses counted, 132 have the JR Ome Line as their nearest and 4 the JR Hachiko Line, and not one has a bus stop as its nearest.

To central Tokyo

Tachikawa and within the city

At Ome Station the number of trains drops by more than half

If you are house-hunting west of Ome Station, this frequency becomes life itself. At the seven stations of Miyanohira, Hinatawada, Ishigamimae, Futamatao, Ikusabata, Sawai and Mitake, missing one train can mean waiting 30 minutes to an hour. In exchange, Ome Station is close — 4 to 20 minutes and ¥155 to ¥209 — so you end up using Ome Station as your interchange hub. East of Kabe and Ozaku it is completely different. There are 4 to 5 trains an hour even during the day, and you can walk to the station without looking at the timetable.

Driving

On the east side of the city is the Ome interchange on the Ken-O Expressway, which the city cites as giving access to the expressway network. Running east to west through the city is the Ome Kaido (National Route 411), which passes in front of Ome Station and carries on to Okutama. In the mountains to the west and north, life does not work without a car. Nariki and Osoki have no railway, so you drive out to the nearest station.

CHAPTER 04Homes actually on the market right now

SUUMO lists 136 second-hand detached houses. This page takes in and counts all 136, and the list shows the 20 cheapest. They run from ¥6,500,000 to ¥84,800,000, with a median of ¥21,800,000. 54 are ¥20,000,000 or less, 106 are ¥30,000,000 or less and 10 are ¥10,000,000 or less.

"Nearest the station first" converts everything to minutes — a walk of ◯ min, ◯ min by bus plus ◯ min from the stop, ◯ km by car (reckoned at 30 km/h) — and compares those. Listings with no such information always appear last, whatever the sort.

Baigo 3¥6,500,000Hinatawada and Baigo (the Yoshino Baigo plum village)Elev. approx. 190 m / Land 79 m² (24 tsubo) / Building 54 m² (16 tsubo) / built 1989 / Hinatawada Sta. 15 min walk4 photos → Tomoda-machi 4¥6,900,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 150 m / Land 100 m² (30 tsubo) / Building 70 m² (21 tsubo) / built 1976 / Ozaku Sta. 28 min walk10 photos → Negabu 2¥7,000,000Kabe and Higashi-Ome (the city hall and the general medical centre)Elev. approx. 230 m / Land 153 m² (46 tsubo) / Building 91 m² (28 tsubo) / built 1996 / Higashi-Ome Sta. 26 min walk10 photos → Komaki-cho 3-542-7¥7,500,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 180 m / Land 121 m² (37 tsubo) / Building 68 m² (21 tsubo) / built 1976 / Ome Sta. bus 7 min+3 min walk10 photos → Wada-machi 2-146-15¥7,800,000Hinatawada and Baigo (the Yoshino Baigo plum village)Elev. approx. 190 m / Land 169 m² (51 tsubo) / Building 97 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1981 / Hinatawada Sta. 16 min walk7 photos → Tomoda-machi 4¥8,300,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 150 m / Land 125 m² (38 tsubo) / Building 81 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1971 / Ozaku Sta. 23 min walk10 photos → Katsunuma 2¥8,500,000Ome (the old Ome post town)Elev. approx. 220 m / Land 384 m² (116 tsubo) / Building 100 m² (30 tsubo) / built 1967 / Higashi-Ome Sta. 12 min walk7 photos → Baigo 3-830-7¥8,800,000Hinatawada and Baigo (the Yoshino Baigo plum village)Elev. approx. 190 m / Land 135 m² (41 tsubo) / Building 61 m² (19 tsubo) / built 1983 / Hinatawada Sta. 14 min walk9 photos → Nagabuchi 5¥9,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 230 m / Land 106 m² (32 tsubo) / Building 84 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1992 / Higashi-Ome Sta. 25 min walk10 photos → Nagabuchi 5¥9,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 230 m / Land 106 m² (32 tsubo) / Building 84 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1992 / Higashi-Ome Sta. 25 min walk10 photos → Futamatao 2¥10,500,000The rural satoyama living support district (Sawai, Osoki and Nariki)Elev. approx. 270 m / Land 285 m² (86 tsubo) / Building 153 m² (46 tsubo) / built 1965 / Ishigamimae Sta. 6 min walk4 photos → Hatanaka 3¥10,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 310 m / Land 140 m² (42 tsubo) / Building 80 m² (24 tsubo) / built 1987 / Miyanohira Sta. 23 min walk10 photos → Imai 1-572-19¥11,000,000Shin-machi, Imai and Fujihashi (the newer estates by the Ken-O Expressway)Elev. approx. 160 m / Land 177 m² (53 tsubo) / Building 119 m² (36 tsubo) / built 1977 / Kabe Sta. bus 9 min+5 min walk8 photos → Hatanaka 3¥11,500,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 200 m / Land 137 m² (41 tsubo) / Building 82 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1990 / Hinatawada Sta. bus 4 min+4 min walk5 photos → Kabe-machi 6¥11,800,000Kabe and Higashi-Ome (the city hall and the general medical centre)Elev. approx. 170 m / Land 88 m² (27 tsubo) / Building 65 m² (20 tsubo) / built 1974 / Kabe Sta. 11 min walk10 photos → Wada-machi 2-206-5¥11,800,000Hinatawada and Baigo (the Yoshino Baigo plum village)Elev. approx. 190 m / Land 113 m² (34 tsubo) / Building 86 m² (26 tsubo) / built 1991 / Miyanohira Sta. 25 min walk10 photos → Hatanaka 3-868-4¥12,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 200 m / Land 143 m² (43 tsubo) / Building 80 m² (24 tsubo) / built 1985 / Ome Sta. bus 10 min+3 min walk10 photos → Hatanaka 1¥12,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 180 m / Land 365 m² (110 tsubo) / Building 71 m² (21 tsubo) / built 1970 / Ome Sta. 21 min walk10 photos → Imai 2¥12,800,000Shin-machi, Imai and Fujihashi (the newer estates by the Ken-O Expressway)Elev. approx. 160 m / Land 65 m² (20 tsubo) / Building 82 m² (25 tsubo) / built 1998 / Kaneko Sta. 24 min walk10 photos → Komaki-cho 2¥12,800,000The south bank of the Tama River (Nagabuchi, Tomoda and Hatanaka)Elev. approx. 310 m / Land 185 m² (56 tsubo) / Building 100 m² (30 tsubo) / built 2004 / Ome Sta. 28 min walk10 photos →

The photographs are the images carried on SUUMO. They disappear once a listing ends. Check the real condition of a property on site.

The city also has an akiya bank

Ome City runs an akiya bank, and 9 properties are registered at present (7 for sale, 2 to rent). Those for sale include Mitakehon-cho at ¥5,000,000, Nagabuchi 2-chome at ¥13,000,000 and Baigo 4-chome at ¥30,000,000; those to rent are in Kami-cho at ¥165,000 a month and in Urajuku-cho. A floor plan and photographs of the interior are published as a PDF for each property, and you apply through a web form. Buying through the akiya bank brings two city subsidies: the "vacant house revival top-up" of ¥100,000 on the relocation grant, and up to ¥1,000,000 towards renovation costs (§14).

Akiya bank — 3 listings

All 3 houses on the market registered with the municipal akiya bank (as checked on 17 August 2026). They are listed cheapest first. There is also 1 rental registration. For 3 of them the floor area is not published, so the floor-plan button does not appear.

CHAPTER 05Is the ground safe?

Ome is designated a Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Zone. But the probability of seismic intensity lower 6 or above within 30 years is 12.9% — an order of magnitude below the 23 wards. 🔴 What to look at first in Ome is not the shaking but the slopes.

Is this town inside a national earthquake-preparedness zone?

For each major earthquake, national law designates the areas where preparation is to be advanced. Whether a town is designated tells you directly how the national government views the shaking and tsunami expected there.

For shaking, it is at the lower end within Tokyo

At the point of Ome City Hall, the probability of being hit by seismic intensity lower 6 or above within 30 years is 12.9%, and 1.4% for upper 6 or above. The surface ground is a gravelly terrace (AVS30 489.59 m/s), which is among the kinds of ground that shake less. Set against the areas covered on this site, Ome's 12.9% compares with Iwaki 88.6%, Osaki 27.7% and Naha 20.8%, and is higher than Hakodate 4.8% and Shimonoseki 5.6%. Being "designated" for the Tokyo inland earthquake means an area required to prepare; it is not the probability of shaking itself.

The disaster map has been updated to the 2025 edition

Ome City has produced the 2025 editions of the "Ome citizens' disaster handbook" and the "Ome citizens' disaster map" and delivered them to every household in the city by 14 March Reiwa 7. If yours has not arrived, you can collect one at a community centre or the Disaster Prevention Division. In May 2026 the handbook was amended to match the review of disaster weather information. Risk is now organised as level 2 advisory, level 3 warning, level 4 danger warning and level 5 emergency warning, and the former "landslide warning information" has become "level 4 landslide danger warning".

CHAPTER 06What summer and winter are like

Within the same Tokyo, mornings are 4.6 times as cold. Ome has 70.8 days below freezing a year, Nerima 32.0 and Tokyo (Otemachi) 15.2. In exchange the summer nights are cool, with 1.9 tropical nights a year — a ninth of Tokyo's 17.8.

The twelve months of temperature, set out as they are

The left end of each bar is the average daily minimum for that month and the right end the average daily maximum (Ome, the 30-year average for 1991–2020).

70.8 days below freezing a year, 1.9 tropical nights a year

Summer in Ome is "hot by day, cool by night". There are 8.1 days a year above 35°C, more than Tokyo's 4.8, so the daytime does get properly hot. But tropical nights number 1.9 a year — a different order from Tokyo's 17.8 and Nerima's 22.4. Think of it as a summer where you can turn the air conditioning off at night. Winter, on the other hand, is more than a Tokyo wardrobe expects. The average daily minimum in January is −2.3°C (Tokyo 1.2°C), and there are 70.8 days below freezing a year. Close to one morning in four is below zero. Protecting the pipes from freezing and scraping the car windscreen in the morning are part of the deal. That said, days that stay below 0°C number 0.0 a year: in a normal year no day fails to rise above freezing. The west and north of the city are colder still. There is only one AMeDAS station in the city, at Ome, but neighbouring Okutama Town (Ogouchi AMeDAS) has 82.9 days below freezing a year, 0.0 tropical nights and 0.3 days staying below 0°C. It is safest to assume Sawai, Mitake and Nariki come closer to those figures.

CHAPTER 07Shops, hospitals, schools

Where you are taken if you collapse in the night — in Ome the answer is the Ome General Medical Centre in Higashi-Ome. It has 35 departments and 501 licensed beds, including 30 in its critical care centre. For a hospital held by a city of 120,000 people, that is an unusual scale.

Hospitals — the city has its own critical care centre

Shopping

Everyday shopping centres on the area in front of Kabe Station and the roadside stores in Shin-machi. Kabe Station, with the city hall, the library and shops gathered together, is the centre of daily life in the city, while Shin-machi and Imai have large stores lining the planned residential districts. West of Ome Station the number of shops drops sharply. If you are house-hunting in Sawai, Mitake, Nariki or Osoki, measure the distance to the nearest supermarket first. The city runs 15 allotment gardens, so a life that assumes you grow your own vegetables is also an option.

Raising children — the Tokyo Metropolitan top-ups count

CHAPTER 08What it costs you every year after you buy

Ome City's water comes from the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Waterworks. In other words, the water charge is exactly the same as in the 23 wards. The only thing the city sets is the sewerage charge, and 40 m³ over two months on a 20 mm connection comes to ¥9,884 — ¥116 more than the ¥9,768 in the 23 wards.

Mains sewerage reaches almost the whole city. Ome City's public sewerage began construction in FY Showa 47, and more than 91% of the roughly 2,379-hectare planned area, centred on the urbanisation promotion area, is complete. What remains includes Mitakesan, and the city is continuing the work. Houses on well water are treated differently. If you use well water or rainwater for the toilet you still pay the sewerage charge, and the wastewater volume is assessed by household size (over two months, up to three people, 30 m³ on well water alone and 15 m³ if combined with mains water). In an old house in the mountains this needs checking.

CHAPTER 09What happens when you want to sell

There are 136 second-hand detached houses in Ome. For a population of 128,000 that is neither thin nor thick, but the fact that the pool of buyers is the whole of Tokyo is what sets it decisively apart from the other areas on this site.

If you are thinking about the exit, look first at two things: the distance from a station, and whether it is in a landslide warning zone. In Ome those two are exactly the order of prices (§2, §5, §12). A place you can buy cheaply is also a place you can only sell cheaply. The property list above can be filtered by district badge and sorted by elevation.

CHAPTER 10Who lives here, and how many

Ome City has 128,311 people in 67,164 households (1 August Reiwa 8, resident register). That is 1.91 people per household.

The breakdown makes the shape of the city plain. Kabe-machi 14,846 • Shin-machi and Suehiro-cho 20,693 • Higashi-Ome, Negabu and Moroka-cho 15,154 • Nagabuchi, Tomoda-machi and Chigase-cho 19,064 — those alone are more than half the city. On the other side, Baigo, Wada-machi, Yugi-machi and Hatanaka come to 9,634, Sawai (Futamatao, Sawai, Mitake and Mitakesan) 2,894, Osoki (Kurosawa, Osoki and Tomioka) 2,916, and Nariki 1,399. Nariki has 1,399 people across the wide north of the city. The city has designated these four districts its "rural satoyama living support district" and tops up the relocation grant there (§14). The wish to draw people to the thinly populated side has been written straight into the scheme.

Source: calculated by this site from the municipality-level tables of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Population, population change and households based on the Basic Resident Register" (as of 1 January Reiwa 8, published 2026-07-29). The ministry's publication page / verified 2026-08-17

CHAPTER 11Community life and the year's events

A year in Ome begins with plums and daruma dolls. The Daruma Market on 12 January, the plum festival from late February through March, the Ome Marathon in February — all of them fall between winter and spring, which is what marks Ome out.

Neighbourhood associations — divided into 11 branches

The Ome City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations is divided into 11 branches — 1 Ome / 2 Nagabuchi / 3 Daimon / 4 Baigo / 5 Sawai / 6 Osoki / 7 Nariki / 8 Higashi-Ome / 9 Shin-machi / 10 Kabe / 11 Fujihashi and Imai. The areas in §2 broadly follow these divisions. The city treats the associations as part of the administration. It pays a neighbourhood association promotion grant and subsidies for repairing and earthquake-proofing meeting halls and for renting the land they stand on, and contracts the associations to deliver the city's circulars and leaflets to every household. Each year the city issues an "Ome City neighbourhood association handbook" and gives three copies to each association. Dues differ from one association to another, and the city does not publish the amounts. You ask the association you are joining directly.

CHAPTER 12Things nearby that move land prices

What drives land prices in Ome is slope or flat ground. And in the west of the city there is one more thing you should know about.

The plum country was once cut down entirely

In Heisei 21 (2009), plum pox virus (PPV) was confirmed in the city for the first time. Under the national emergency control measures, about 40,000 plum and related trees were felled across the city. Replanting was not allowed either, and the effects on farming, tourism and business ran deep. From FY Heisei 28 (2016), replanting began on a limited, conditional basis. By the end of FY Reiwa 2 a cumulative 5,400 trees had been planted, and about 1,200 in the Plum Park to date. Both the national emergency control and the city's strengthened measures ended in March Reiwa 3, and from April Reiwa 3 plums, peaches, Japanese plums and apricots could again be planted freely anywhere in the city. The virus has not been eradicated, however. The city has continued control work at a reduced scale from FY Reiwa 6, covering the whole of Baigo, the whole of Wada-machi, Yugi-machi, Futamatao, Hatanaka and Hinatawada. An annual infection survey, felling of infected trees, and aphid control on farmland and in the Plum Park (twice a year) all continue. If you want to plant a plum tree in your garden in this area, check with the city's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Division first. "Hinatawada and Baigo", the cheapest area in §2, overlaps almost exactly with this zone.

Wild boar and deer come down

Ome City is licensed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to capture nuisance wildlife and contracts the work to the Ome district of the Tokyo Hunting Association (the Ome Hunting Association). The animals covered are large: wild boar and deer; medium: raccoon, masked palm civet, badger and raccoon dog; birds: crows. The city lists three measures — removing what draws them in (unharvested fruit trees left to themselves, discarded produce and food waste all become feed), tidying the surroundings (unmanaged scrub and woodland become hiding places), and keeping them out (electric fences and wire mesh). The city writes that all of these "need the cooperation not only of farmers but of every resident in the area". If you are going to have a vegetable plot, budget for a fence from the start.

The words "Ome City" alone do not settle the question of land

Across 13 km from east to west, the elevation of the properties runs from 137 m to 514 m and the district medians from ¥14,800,000 to ¥28,490,000. And landslide warning zones run from 155 in Nariki to 2 in Daimon 1-chome (§5). When a property advertisement says only "Ome City", look at the town name first. The property list on this page carries district badges and can be sorted by "lowest elevation first" or "highest first". Then check that exact address on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's landslide warning zone map. In Ome, those two things account for most of the explanation of price.

The information on this site is gathered by an AI that visits primary sources — municipalities, the Japan Meteorological Agency, national statistics — on a regular cycle, and it is updated with a source and a date of verification attached.

CHAPTER 13What this place makes

What a place earns its living from shows up both at your dinner table and in your work once you live there. The amount raised through the hometown tax scheme is a rough measure of how many products a place has that people all over Japan choose.

Ome's main produce and crafts

We have not yet been able to describe this place's local specialities

I (an AI) searched the official website of Ome City and the tourism and produce association sites the municipality points to, but I could not find an officially listed set of local specialities (checked 20 August 2026).
This site is built by checking each source one at a time, so that an AI does not present something as fact when it is not. Because no sourced information could be found, nothing is recorded here yet. It does not mean there are no local specialities, so please bear with us.

CHAPTER 14A message from Ome City

How the receiving side sees it. Here are the town's own words and the schemes available now.

This section is transcribed as written on the municipality's own website. If an officer of the municipality sends us their own text, we will replace it. Get in touch here →

CHAPTER 15A year in Ome

What is in season, the festivals, and the temperature. Twelve months of living here, on one page.

The festival dates come from announcements by Ome City and the Ome City Tourist Association, and the temperatures, rainfall and day counts from the Japan Meteorological Agency normals (Ome AMeDAS, 1991–2020). Events without a date shift from year to year. Before you move, come once on one of the days in this table.

CHAPTER 16The people who run this city

When you are thinking about moving, who is running this town now, and where they are taking it, is something a future resident probably wants to know even more than a current one. This chapter sets out, with sources, only what Ome City publishes itself. 🔴 As of 22 August 2026, following the official site, I (an AI) could find 5 of the 6 items below. The mayor of Ome City is Osemachi Toshiaki (confirmed on the city's introduction page).

CHAPTER 17Where to go on a day off

What never shows up in the numbers of a house search, yet bears directly on how satisfied you are once you live somewhere, is days off. This chapter counts, on the same yardstick for every area, the places you can go on a day off in Ome and the places family and friends can stay. This is a town with Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park. It currently has 1 hot spring and day bathing facility and 3 amusement parks, zoos or aquariums. 🔴 All the counts are the numbers registered in the map data (OpenStreetMap) — in practice there may be more.

Somewhere to stay — for family and friends, and for your own travels

This table is the result of me (an AI) putting the same question to the map data for every area (areas are retrieved in batches, so the verification date on some pages is a day apart). Facilities not registered on the map are not counted. "Not found" does not mean "there are none" — nor that the town is any the lesser for it.

Compare with other areas

Every page has the same 17 chapters in the same order. Move between them and you can compare the same line.

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