Yakushima
Yakushima is a town located in Kumage District, Kagoshima, Japan. The town is on the island of Yakushima and Kuchinoerabujima.
- Type: Town with 13,500 residents
- Description: town in Kumage district, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Yakushima Cho”, “Yakushima Chō”, and “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Yakushima Airport and Rakusa Hotel Yakushima.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Funayuki.
Yakushima
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Kumage district, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.3902° or 30° 23′ 25″ north
Longitude
130.6511° or 130° 39′ 4″ east
Population
13,500
Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP KUM
Open location code
8Q2G9MR2+3C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yakushima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياكوشيما”
- Armenian: “Յակուսիմա”
- Asturian: “Yakushima”
- Burmese: “ယခုရှီးမားမြို့၊ ခါဂိုရှီးမား”
- Catalan: “Yakushima”
- Cebuano: “Yakushima-chō”
- Chinese: “屋久岛町”
- Chinese: “屋久島町”
- Czech: “Jakušima”
- Dutch: “Yakushima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ياكوشيما”
- French: “Yakushima”
- German: “Yakushima”
- Hebrew: “יקושימה”
- Hungarian: “Jakusima”
- Irish: “Yakushima”
- Italian: “Yakushima”
- Japanese: “Yakushima-chō”
- Japanese: “やくしまちょう”
- Japanese: “ヤクシマチョウ”
- Japanese: “屋久島町”
- Korean: “야쿠시마정”
- Korean: “야쿠시마초”
- Malay: “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
- Malay: “Yakushima”
- Persian: “یاکوشیما”
- Polish: “Yakushima”
- Portuguese: “Yakushima”
- Russian: “Якусима”
- Russian: “Якушима” (historical)
- Slovenian: “Jakušima”
- Spanish: “Yakushima”
- Swedish: “Yakushima-chō”
- Swedish: “Yakushima”
- Tagalog: “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
- Tagalog: “Yakushima”
- Thai: “ยากูชิมะ”
- Turkish: “Yakushima”
- Ukrainian: “Якусіма”
- Ukrainian: “Якушіма”
- Urdu: “یکشیما، کگوشیما”
- Uzbek: “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
- Uzbek: “Yakushima”
- Vietnamese: “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
- Yue Chinese: “屋久島町”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Koseda and Kusugawa.
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Highlights: 屋久島町役場 and 議会棟.
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