 On January 16, 2005, the towns of Hakata, Kamiura, Kikuma, Miyakubo, Namikata, Ōmishima, Ōnishi, Tamagawa, and Yoshiumi, and the villages of Asakura and Sekizen (all from Ochi District) were merged into Imabari.As a result, there are no more villages within Ehime Prefecture.Imabari is home to a large number of shipbuilding and maritime servicing facilities along the northern and eastern coastlines of the city.