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A wet day: the Village Center, then the Yakusugi Museum, Yakushima

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A wet day: the Village Center, then the Yakusugi Museum

Heavy rain, when forest streams rise. Timed from the gangway and back.

5 hr door to door7 stopsA wet day
Open the route in Google Maps, in 3 parts
Photo: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥8,300 each way
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Best for
Heavy 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
Room to spare
Fits a 7-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 from Miyanoura to the Yakusugi Museum and back, about ¥8,300 each way, our estimate. Village Center ¥530, museum ¥600.

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 3 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Environmental Culture Village Center → Yakushima Furusato Ichibaon foot
  2. 2Yakushima Furusato Ichiba → Yakusugi Museum, Anbotrain or bus
  3. 3Yakusugi Museum, Anbo → 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 or walk to the Environmental Culture Village Center (about 30 min on foot from the quay, our estimate)

    9:00–17:00

  2. +0:30
    Exhibition hall and the large-screen film

    ¥530; films at 9:20, 11:20, 13:20, 15:20 (25 min) and 10:20, 12:20, 14:20, 16:20 (20 min)

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (on foot)
  3. +1:45
    Lunch at the Furusato Ichiba, next door

    Restaurant 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30)

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)
  4. +2:30
    Taxi to the Yakusugi Museum in Anbo (about 30–35 min)

    Ask the market or the Tourism Center to call one

  5. +3:05
    Yakusugi Museum

    9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, ¥600

    Directions from the previous stop (train or bus)
  6. +4:10
    Taxi back to the quay (about 30–35 min)
  7. +4:50
    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 riseYakusugi Land, YakushimaThe cedars: Yakusugi Museum, Yakusugi Land and Kigensugi by taxiNeeds an 8.5-hour call · ~6.5hCalls 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
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