Miyanoura Port seen from the sea; the Village Center stands at the port entrance, the shrine in the villagePhoto: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
The Environmental Culture Village Center is the base of the Yakushima Environmental Culture Village plan, for living alongside the island's nature.
- Getting there
- About 30 min on foot from the cruise quay, our estimate; 5 min from the Miyanoura Port bus stop
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The Environmental Culture Village Center at the port entrance explains the island from sea to summit, with a 25-minute film on a large screen at 9:20, 11:20, 13:20 and 15:20. 9:00–17:00, ¥530; closed Mondays (Tuesday after a holiday Monday) and 28 Dec–1 Jan; no closing day in Golden Week or 20 Jul–31 Aug. Masaku Shrine and Kuhonji temple are in the village nearby.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
- The Village Center closes on Mondays (Tuesday after a holiday Monday) and 28 December–1 January. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 2 hr 30 min door to door needs a 4.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
- It is a view, so it is weather. Check the morning sky before you commit the hours.
Miyanoura: the Village Center and Masaku Shrine and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 30 min 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 30 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