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The Miyanoura River and the mountains behind Miyanoura, Yakushima

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For a 5.5-hour call · Yakushima

Miyanoura on foot: the Village Center, Masaku Shrine and the market

Any call, and short or late-arriving ones. Timed from the gangway and back.

3 hr 30 min door to door7 stopsNeeds a 5.5-hour call
Open the route in Google Maps, in 2 parts
Photo: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
Door to door
3 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 5.5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
No transport needed from the quay
Village Center ¥530; lunch at the Furusato Ichiba.
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Best for
Any 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
Room to spare
Fits a 5.5-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.

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 2 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Masaku Shrine → Environmental Culture Village Centeron foot
  2. 2Environmental Culture Village Center → Yakushima Furusato Ichiba → Your shipon foot

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
    Walk from the cruise quay over the river bridge to Masaku Shrine (1.7 km, about 25 min, our estimate)

    If you tender, the landing place is in the daily programme

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (on foot)
    The Miyanoura River and the mountains behind Miyanoura, Yakushima
    Photo: Raita Futo / CC BY 2.0
  2. +0:40
    Walk on to the Environmental Culture Village Center at the port entrance (about 10 min)

    9:00–17:00, ¥530 with the large-screen film

  3. +0:50
    Exhibition hall, sea to summit, then the film

    “Symphony of Forest and Water”, about 25 min, at 9:20, 11:20, 13:20, 15:20; “Four Seasons”, about 20 min, at 10:20, 12:20, 14:20, 16:20

    Directions from the previous stop (on foot)
  4. +2:00
    Yakushima Furusato Ichiba: flying-fish lunch and the market

    Restaurant 11:00–15:00 (last order 14:30); shop 9:00–18:00, to 17:00 in winter

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)
  5. +2:50
    Marutaka Suisan for kubiore-saba and mackerel flakes, or Araki Shoten for island shochu

    Both close on Sundays

  6. +3:00
    Walk back to the quay (about 30 min, our estimate)

    Or call a taxi: Yakushima Kotsu Taxi 0997-42-0611

  7. +3:30
    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

Shiratani 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 JanA 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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