Hita



Hita city (日田市) is a small town of about 50,000 people in the west of Oita Prefecture. It's actually closer to Fukuoka than Oita, the prefectural capital.

At the moment, Hita is home to seven ALTs. Four of them work as one-shots in Elementary and Junior High Schools (one is employed by Prefectural Board of Education, the other three by the Muicipal Board of Education) and three work as base-school ALTs in Senior High Schools.

Hita is generally regarded as a nice town to be placed in. It's large enough to have lots of restaurants, bars and so that not everyone will know you, while still being small enough to have a countryside feel. It's also well served by transport links so when you want to escape somewhere bigger, you can. Regular buses run to Fukuoka and Oita and the Oita Expressway has an exit here.