Yakushima
Yakushima is a town located in Kumage District, Kagoshima, Japan. The town is on the island of Yakushima and Kuchinoerabujima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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 include Yakushima Airport and Rakusa Hotel Yakushima.
Yakushima Airport
Aerodrome
Yakushima Airport is an airport located on the island of Yakushima in Kumage District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It lies by the coast, between the towns of Anbō and Miyanoura.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Funayuki.
Funayuki
Quarter
Photo: Makoto Kaneda, CC BY 3.0.
Funayuki is a quarter, which is situated 4½ km south of Yakushima.
Yakushima
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Kumage-gun, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.3902° or 30° 23′ 25″ northLongitude
130.6511° or 130° 39′ 4″ eastPopulation
13,500Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP KUMOpen location code
8Q2G9MR2+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 582952665OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Yakushima from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“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-chō”
- 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”
- Japanese: “熊毛郡屋久島町”
- Korean: “야쿠시마정”
- Korean: “야쿠시마초”
- Malay: “Yakushima, Kagoshima”
- Malay: “Yakushima”
- Persian: “یاکوشیما، کاگوشیما”
- 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”
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