program as an occasional main anchor from 6am to 8am in place of Wakuda, who took leave in that period. In the midnight of January 1, 2018, Omi appeared on TV as a correspondent at Kawasaki Daishi in Yukutoshi Kurutoshi, NHK's annual New Year's Eve television special, with Takase and Wakuda. In addition to the newscaster, Omi temporarily hosted NHK Special. Her first appearance on this program was the panel discussion segment on March 26, 2017, with Tamio Miyake. In NHK Special airing on January 1, 2019, Omi hosted this program with Tamori in a similar way she did in Bura Tamori. In this program, she invited an architect Kengo Kuma and a novelist Yukiko Motoya as guests for looking back how the city of Tokyo has been developed, viewing what the construction of the venues for Olympic Games to be held in 2020 is going on, and discussing how people should live their lives in the future. She also hosted the episodes aired on March 24 and August 10, 2019. From November 24, 2019 to February 23, 2020, Omi hosted a series of "Origin of Food" with Tokio. Omi narrated railroad travel series Ikuzo! Saihate! Hikyo x Tetsudo, as well as some episodes of Sawayaka Shizen Hyakkei, the documentaries with factual content involving nature of a particular place in Japan. Omi visited Sicily, Italy as a one-time navigator to film her six-day walk of the ancient Sicilian footpath from San Leone to Sutera for the last episode of documentary Ippon-no-Michi aired on NHK BS Premium on March 20, 2018. Asaichi Omi left Bura Tamori and NHK News Ohayō Nippon in March 2018. In April, she became the co-host of Asaichi, a live infotainment morning talk show, with comedians Hanamaru-Daikichi Hakata, taking over from Yumiko Udo, Yoshihiko Inohara and Hideo Yanagisawa. At the same time, she conducted a panel discussion by people with a developmental disability as one of the main hosts of NHK's special program with Hideyuki Nakayama, which aired on April 30, 2018. At the beginning of September 2018, Omi, together with Mayuko Wakuda, conducted an exclusive interview with Namie Amuro, one of Japan’s leading pop singers who was planning to end her musical career on September 16, 2018. This interview aired in Asaichi on September 12, 2018. In Asaichi airing on July 4, 2019, Omi introduced the viral video where she had visited Showa Women's University Junior