Ukiha is where the authentic Japanese rural landscape, which has been maintained for centuries by the agricultural community, breathes the rhythm of transiting season just as it did two thousand years ago. It is yet not a remote backwoods – only 50 km away from the urban Fukuoka area, which might account for the local people’s openness towards visitors and new events/programs.
Its main industry is agriculture, with the product varying by the soil quality and the altitude –you see the fields of rice all over the flat area, orchards and tea farms covering the foot of the hills, and there is forestry and a valley of terraced rice paddies in the mountain area.