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More than a kilometer of rows of houses comprised the Iwami-Ginzan Silver Mine's Omori Town district. Scattered about in the surrounding area are the ports of Oura (Ohda City), Maji-Tomogaura (Nima Town), and Yunotsu (Yunotsu Town) which were used for the transport of silver and supplies, as well as a site in Takuno (Nima Town) where steel was produced to make mining tools. These places were joined by a main road called the "Ginzan Kaido".  There also remain many places of modern cultural significance such as the ruins of the Shimizudani Refinery constructed under Fujita management (which started in 1895), the Eikyu ore deposit in Nima which produced copper pyrite as one of its primary ores, and the ruins of a power plant. When the Mine became in possession of Fujita Group, it came to be called "Omori Mine". Today they form a historical landscape of the Iwami-Ginzan Silver Mine.

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