Visiting One of Japan’s Most Remote Islands
Yakushima is Japan’s oldest World Natural Heritage Site
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8 min readDec 4, 2023
Allow me to tell the story of two separate encounters with a magical place on a remote Japanese island.
Reaching it takes a full day of travel. Getting there, in a nutshell — take the bullet train from Tokyo across Japan’s main island, continuing through Kyushu to the…