Newstar news channel. NHK In April 2012, Omi was hired by NHK as Announcer. After few months' training, she started her broadcasting career as an occasional reporter at NHK Kumamoto Broadcasting Station in Kumamoto, Japan. In 2014, Omi moved to NHK Fukuoka Broadcasting Station in Fukuoka, Japan. From the spring of 2015, she was an anchor of NHK Fukuoka's afternoon news show Rokuichi Fukuoka. She also appeared as an occasional newscaster on NHK News airing at noon within the Kyushu area as well as the nationwide morning news show NHK News Ohayō Nippon and the evening news show News Watch 9. On January 17, 2015, Omi made a trip to Tokyo to be an occasional anchor for that day's NHK News Ohayō Nippon. She appeared in place of its main anchor Mayuko Wakuda, who was in Kobe for reporting the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Bura Tamori In March 2016, Omi was appointed as the 4th assistant for NHK's geological program Bura Tamori hosted by Tamori. The producer of this program called her to Arashiyama, Kyoto for the filming of her first episode of it, which aired on April 30, 2016. Omi moved to Tokyo since she was officially relocated to NHK Tokyo Announcement Room in April 2016. She served 65 episodes of Bura Tamori for two years from April 2016 to March 2018. Her girlish looks and goofy, empty-minded behavior attracted some of its viewers and contributed to this program's higher viewership. The highest viewership rate of all episodes is 16.0%, which was marked by the "KyotoFushimi" episode aired on May 7, 2016. The weekly Shūkan Bunshun magazine nominated Omi the 15th most favorite female announcer in 2017 and the 9th most favorite one in 2018 based on reader's polls. It introduced its reader's voices, saying, "Her goofiness is cute. Tamori and she look like a grandfather and a granddaughter," "She looks sincere," and "She looks pure." In the "Yokosuka" episode of Bura Tamori (aired on June 18, 2016), Omi visited the Command Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture together with the co-host Tamori. They went on board anchoring there to interview this aircraft carrier's crew members. Before filming the "Hiraizumi" episode (aired on December 10, 2016), Omi injured her chin and got stitches on it because she accidentally fell on the street. She appeared in this episode with her chin covered with a big bandage,