The Miyanoura River and the mountains behind Miyanoura, the village where the Furusato Ichiba isPhoto: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
Flying fish and kubiore-saba are the island's two fish. Kubiore means a broken neck, after the way the mackerel are killed when landed; on the island it is eaten as sashimi.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Tobiuo, flying fish, is the island’s fish: as sashimi or tobi-katsu, a cutlet. The Furusato Ichiba restaurant serves it fried whole (飛魚姿揚げ定食, ¥1,700), 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30) every day, and its shop sells island food until 18:00 (17:00 in winter). For kubiore-saba, Marutaka Suisan is a short walk away.
- Short enough to be certain of: 2 hr door to door.
- 2 hr door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Three places, three different answers
| Place | What you get |
|---|---|
| Local pickYakushima Furusato Ichiba restaurant屋久島ふるさと市場・島の恵み館 | Miyanoura 797-1, next to the Environmental Culture Village Center. Restaurant 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30); whole fried flying-fish set ¥1,700; shop 9:00–18:00 (to 17:00 in winter), open every day. |
| Local pickKitchen HUB DiningKitchen HUB Dining | Miyanoura 368-21, about 3 min by car from the port. Lunch 10:00–15:00, café 9:00–18:00; average lunch ¥900; cards accepted. |
| Local pickMarutaka Suisan丸高水産 | Fishmonger at Miyanoura 111: kubiore-saba and smoked mackerel flakes to take away. 8:30–18:00, closed Sundays. |
Each name opens in Google Maps. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Flying fish at the Furusato Ichiba and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 5 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
Miyanoura on foot: the Village Center, Masaku Shrine and the marketNeeds a 5.5-hour call · ~3.5h door to doorAny call, and short or late-arriving ones. The Village Center opens at 9:00 and closes on Mondays, or the Tuesday after a holiday Monday, but not in Golden Week or from 20 July to 31 August (open Mon 11 Oct 2027, closed Mon 8 May 2028); the Furusato Ichiba restaurant opens at 11:00, so on an early call do the shrine and the market shop first. If you tender, start from the landing point
A wet day: the Village Center, then the Yakusugi MuseumA wet day · ~5h door to doorHeavy rain, when forest streams rise. Both are indoors. The Village Center opens at 9:00 and closes on Mondays (the Tuesday after a holiday Monday); the museum on the first Tuesday of the monthWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Do · ~5hShiratani Unsuikyo moss forest
Cedar, moss-covered granite and clear streams at 600–1,050 m, 10 km above Miyanoura.
See the detail
See · ~5hYakusugi Land
The higher recreation forest, at 1,000–1,300 m above Anbo, with five boardwalk and trail courses among named cedars: Buddhasugi, about 1,800 years old, and Hahakosugi, about 2,600.
See the detail
See · ~5hKigensugi cedar
A cedar of about 3,000 years, 19.5 m tall and 8.1 m round, beside the forest road.
See the detail