Yakushima / Miyanoura Port

As an island located in the southwestern end of the Japanese archipelago with a range of mountains over 1,000 meters, Yakushima has a wide temperature range and a diversity of Japanese flora that is distributed according to altitude. It is also home to a large number of giant Japanese cedars more than a thousand years old. Recognizing the status of these Yakushima cedars and the unique vertical plant distributions, the island was inscribed as the Japan’s first World Natural Heritage site in 1993.