Arakawa Trail Access Road Rules 2015
Here are the road regulations the access road to the Arakawa trail which are now a permanent fixture in the annual hiking calendar.
A Yakumonkey Guide to enjoying Yakushima 2019
Here are the road regulations the access road to the Arakawa trail which are now a permanent fixture in the annual hiking calendar.
Furusatoichiba ふるさと市場 Location: Miyanoura near the port (See Google maps) Google Street view The menu is a bit like a ‘family restaurant’ but it has a wide variety of food. Il Mare イルマーレ Location: Koseda (See Google maps street view) An authentic Italian restaurant as close as Yakushima gets to
Filling in Yakushima’s Blanks Yakushima Deer cull
Filling in Yakushima’s blanks: Mapping remote island’s wild, lush mountains a 5-decade quest by Akiko Yoshinaga (Yomiuri Shimbun) “The moss is much paler than usual. It hasn’t rained much, so maybe it’s not getting enough moisture,” Itsuo Ota, 69, said as he felt the moss growing along a mountain path
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“When I first came to Yakushima, it would have never crossed my mind that I would soon learn the old Japanese craft of carving Yakusugi wood. I was a fisherman; out on the ocean every day to catch flying fish,” says Clive Witham, who, awed by the beauty of Japan’s
The following video was filmed by Henry Jun Wah Lee as part of the ‘Valtari mystery film experiment’ in which the Icelandic band, Sigur Rós, contracted a different filmmaker for each song on their album ‘Valtari‘. The location for the entirety of this video is Yakushima.