Yakushima LighthousePhoto: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
Yakushima Lighthouse stands on the headland west of Nagata, about five minutes by car from the village, with parking for five cars. Kuchinoerabu Island lies offshore to the north-west.
- Getting there
- Five minutes by car from Nagata; taxi from the quay about ¥10,100, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
A white lighthouse on a headland on the west coast, with Kuchinoerabu Island across the water. Car park for 5. It is the natural turning point of a west-coast drive that takes in Nagata Inakahama beach and the start of the Seibu Rindo.
- 4 hr door to door needs a 6-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Yakushima Lighthouse and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
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Cedar, moss-covered granite and clear streams at 600–1,050 m, 10 km above Miyanoura.
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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.
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See · ~5hKigensugi cedar
A cedar of about 3,000 years, 19.5 m tall and 8.1 m round, beside the forest road.
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