Ōmori

Prior to its development as a residential and business location, Ōmori was a fishing village along the Tōkaidō Highway and famous for its farming of nori seaweed, a staple of the Japanese diet.

There are six neighbourhoods in Ōta with the place name Ōmori: Ōmorihonchō, Ōmorihigashi, Ōmorikita, Ōmoriminami, Ōmorinaka and Ōmorinishi.

[1] Ōmori was the site of an Imperial Japanese Army-administered prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.

In the next year, Edward S. Morse discovered the Ōmori Shell Mound from a train window.

On August 24, 1938, a mid-air collision above Ōmori showed debris on an iron works there, killing at least 53 people on the ground.