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Yakusugi Land trail, Yakushima island, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, Japan.

Yakusugi Land trail, Yakushima island, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Rented poles helped hiking the slippery “80-minute Course” in Yakusugi Land, which we photographed for 3 hours. Typically living for 500 years, Japanese cedar trees are a valuable conifer in the cypress family. The trees 1000+ years-old are venerated with the name yakusugi (Yakushima + sugi, meaning cedar). Industrial logging, peaking in the 1960s, yielded to environmental consciousness preserving the island's central forest. Forests that were widely logged for cedar shingles during the late feudal age have recovered well and now attract hikers. Yakushima is a quiet, subtropical island with ancient cedar forest. 20% of Yakushima is designated as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. As a remote semitropical island on the 30th parallel with nearly 2000-meter-high mountains, Yakushima scoops a lot of rain, almost daily in the mountainous interior, at least lightly.

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Yakusugi Land trail, Yakushima island, UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Rented poles helped hiking the slippery “80-minute Course” in Yakusugi Land, which we photographed for 3 hours. Typically living for 500 years, Japanese cedar trees are a valuable conifer in the cypress family. The trees 1000+ years-old are venerated with the name yakusugi (Yakushima + sugi, meaning cedar). Industrial logging, peaking in the 1960s, yielded to environmental consciousness preserving the island's central forest. Forests that were widely logged for cedar shingles during the late feudal age have recovered well and now attract hikers. Yakushima is a quiet, subtropical island with ancient cedar forest. 20% of Yakushima is designated as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. As a remote semitropical island on the 30th parallel with nearly 2000-meter-high mountains, Yakushima scoops a lot of rain, almost daily in the mountainous interior, at least lightly.
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