Hita city (日田市 hita-shi?) 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.