The Iriomote Tit occurs on Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in Japan's Yaeyama Islands. The sexes have similar plumage: a black head and throat, chestnut forehead, cheeks and nape, reddish-brown breast and belly, and olive flanks. It lives in evergreen broadleaf forest.
The sexes have similar plumage. The head and throat are black; the forehead, cheeks and nape are chestnut; the breast and belly are reddish brown, the flanks olive and the back grey-brown.
It is resident in evergreen broadleaf forest on Iriomote and Ishigaki.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.