Yakusugi LandPhoto: KimonBerlin / CC BY-SA 2.0
Yakusugi Land was designated a natural recreation forest in March 1974, together with Shiratani.
- Getting there
- Taxi about an hour from the quay, about ¥12,400 one way, our estimate; the bus needs a change and runs twice a day
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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. Forest fee ¥800. Since Typhoon No. 24 the exit suspension bridge is out and a short temporary exit near Kugurisugi is used.
- Number 2 of ten on our list for Yakushima.
- 5 hr door to door needs a 7-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Yakusugi Land and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 5 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 3 hr 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.
What 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 · ~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
See · ~5.5hOhko-no-taki waterfall
One of Japan’s 100 best waterfalls, on the south-west coast.
See the detail