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For an 8.5-hour call · Yakushima

The cedars: Yakusugi Museum, Yakusugi Land and Kigensugi by taxi

Calls of 8 hours or more. Book the taxi before the call; none waits at the trailheads. The museum closes on the first Tuesday of the month and 29 Dec–1 Jan. Timed from the gangway and back.

6 hr 30 min door to door8 stopsNeeds an 8.5-hour call
Open the route in Google Maps, in 4 parts
Photo: KimonBerlin / CC BY-SA 2.0
Door to door
6 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
An 8.5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥26,700 out and back
Booking
Book ahead
Best for
Calls of 8 hours or more. Book the taxi before the call; none waits at the trailheads. The museum closes on the first Tuesday of the month and 29 Dec–1 Jan
Room to spare
Fits an 8.5-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
Taxi about ¥12,400 out to Yakusugi Land and about ¥14,300 back from Kigensugi, our estimates; a day rate or a jumbo taxi for four can cost less per head. Museum ¥600, forest fee ¥800.
Booking
At least one step needs booking before you sail: the steps below say which

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

Open in Google Maps, in 4 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Yakusugi Museum, Anbotrain or bus
  2. 2Yakusugi Museum, Anbo → Yakusugi Landtrain or bus
  3. 3Yakusugi Land → Kigensugi cedartrain or bus
  4. 4Kigensugi cedar → Back to the shiptrain or bus

Google Maps on a phone takes three stops between start and end, and none on a train or bus route, so the day opens in parts. Each step below also has its own directions.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to the Yakusugi Museum in Anbo (23 km, about 30–35 min, our estimate)

    Yakushima Kotsu Taxi 0997-42-0611 · Matsubanda Kotsu Taxi 0997-43-5555 · Anbo Taxi 0997-46-2311

  2. +0:35
    Yakusugi Museum, 50–60 min

    9:00–17:00, ¥600

    Directions from the ship (train or bus)
  3. +1:35
    Up the mountain road to Yakusugi Land (12.5 km, about 25 min)
  4. +2:00
    Yakusugi Land, about 1 h 30 min on a course past Buddhasugi and Hahakosugi

    Forest fee ¥800. Use the temporary exit near Kugurisugi: the exit bridge is out

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (train or bus)
    Yakusugi Land, Yakushima
    Photo: KimonBerlin / CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. +3:30
    Kigensugi, 5.7 km and about 20 min further up

    A roadside cedar of about 3,000 years. No restaurant on this road is listed: bring food from the ship

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (train or bus)
    Kigensugi cedar, Yakushima
    Photo: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
  6. +4:10
    Down to Miyanoura, about 1 h 10 min
  7. +5:20
    Furusato Ichiba if the restaurant is still serving (last order 14:30), then to the quay
  8. +6:30
    Back at the gangway
    Back at the gangway, Yakushima
    Photo: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
Other routes

The other routes in Yakushima

The Miyanoura River and the mountains behind Miyanoura, YakushimaMiyanoura on foot: the Village Center, Masaku Shrine and the marketNeeds a 5.5-hour call · ~3.5hAny 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 pointShiratani Unsuikyo moss forest, YakushimaShiratani Unsuikyo: to the moss forest and backNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hCalls of 7 hours or more with the ship in by 09:00: out on the 10:08 bus, back on the 13:45. The 8:23 bus also works but leaves you waiting for the 13:45. A ship that tenders loses 30–60 min each way: on Mitsui Ocean Sakura’s 21 April 2027 call the 10:08 cannot be caught, so take a taxi both ways; on its 1 July 2027 call (08:00–17:00) take the 10:08 out but a taxi booked for 13:45 back from Shiratani (about 25 min, about ¥4,200, our estimate), because the 13:45 bus and the walk reach the quay at about 14:32, after the 14:30 an hour’s tender run needs. Not after heavy rain, when the streams riseA wet day: the Village Center, then the Yakusugi Museum, YakushimaA wet day: the Village Center, then the Yakusugi MuseumA wet day · ~5hHeavy 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 month
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