Yakushima
Yakushima is an island off the south east coast of Kyushu next to Tanegashima and north of Okinawa in Japan. Officially a part of Kagoshima Prefecture, it is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kagoshima, Japan
- Also known as: “Yaku Iisland”, “Yaku Island”, “Yaku Sima”, “Yaku-jima”, and “Yaku-shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Miyanoura and Mt. Kurio.
Mount Miyanoura
Peak
Mount Miyanoura is a mountain in central Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture. At an altitude of 1,936 m, it is the highest peak of Yakushima and also the highest peak of the Kyushu region.
Mount Nagata
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Nagata is a mountain on the island of Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. At an altitude of 1,886 m, it is the second highest peak of Yakushima and the Kyushu region after Mount Miyanoura.
Yakushima
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Satellite Map
Discover Yakushima from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yakushima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياكوشيما”
- Armenian: “Յակուշիմա”
- Azerbaijani: “Yakuşima”
- Basque: “Yakushima”
- Belarusian: “Яку”
- Catalan: “Yakushima”
- Cebuano: “Yaku-shima”
- Chinese: “屋久岛”
- Chinese: “屋久島”
- Croatian: “Yakushima”
- Czech: “Jakušima”
- Dutch: “Yakushima”
- Esperanto: “Jakuŝima”
- Estonian: “Yaku saar”
- Estonian: “Yaku-shima”
- Estonian: “Yaku”
- Estonian: “Yakushima”
- Finnish: “Yakushima”
- French: “île Yaku”
- French: “Yaku-shima”
- French: “Yakushima”
- Galician: “Yakushima”
- Georgian: “იაკუშიმა”
- German: “Yakushima”
- Greek: “Γιάκου-Σίμα”
- Greek: “Γιάκου”
- Greek: “Γιακουσίμα”
- Greek: “Νήσος Γιάκου”
- Hebrew: “יקושימה”
- Hungarian: “Jakusima”
- Indonesian: “Yakushima”
- Italian: “Yaku-shima”
- Italian: “Yakushima”
- Japanese: “屋久島”
- Japanese: “屋久島スギ原始林”
- Japanese: “屋久島杉原始林”
- Javanese: “Yakushima”
- Korean: “야쿠섬”
- Korean: “야쿠시마”
- Lithuanian: “Jakušima”
- Macedonian: “Јакушима”
- Maithili: “याकुशिमा”
- Malayalam: “യാകുഷിമ”
- Maltese: “Yakushima”
- Mingrelian: “იაკუშიმა”
- Nepali: “याकुशिमा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yakushima”
- Norwegian: “Yakushima”
- Panjabi: “ਯਾਕੁਸ਼ਿਮਾ”
- Persian: “یاکوشیما”
- Polish: “Yaku-shima”
- Polish: “Yakushima”
- Portuguese: “Yakushima”
- Romanian: “Yakushima”
- Russian: “Яку”
- Russian: “Якусима”
- Russian: “Якушима”
- Scots: “Yakushima”
- Shona: “Yakushima”
- Slovak: “Jakušima”
- Slovenian: “Jakušima”
- Spanish: “Yaku-shima”
- Spanish: “Yakushima”
- Swedish: “Yakushima”
- Thai: “เกาะยากุ”
- Thai: “ยากูชิมะ”
- Turkish: “Yakushima”
- Turkish: “Yakuşima”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Яку”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Якусіма”
- Ukrainian: “Якусіма”
- Ukrainian: “Якушіма”
- Vietnamese: “Yakushima”
- Welsh: “Yakushima”
- Wu Chinese: “屋久岛”
- Yue Chinese: “屋久島”
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