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Tanegashima / Yakushima

Category

Smiley

4.0

23 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 122-1

This cafe is located about a 10 minute walk from Anbo Port. The scenic cafe, which is situated on the banks of the Anbo River, offers handmade sweets created with local ingredients. Their specialty is the English muffin sandwiches. Each and every toasted muffin is carefully baked in-house with domestic whole grain wheat flour, and cane sugar. The cafe's shima banana shakes, which it makes with bananas nurtured by Yakushima sunlight, are offering popular for their thickness texture and natural sugar-free sweetness.

Cute little cafe offering decent coffee, drinks and sweet treats. They also have a limited lunch set menu with some sandwiches. Perfect place to kick back and relax at.
Outdoor Yakushima Guide System

Leisure / Hobbies

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 2354-7

"This tour guide service offers eco tours of the mountains, forests, rivers, and ocean of Yakushima Island. Tour participants can enjoy the nature of Yakushima Island, which has a climate that ranges from subtropical to cold-temperate. Tours are guided by the company's owner, who was born and raised on Yakushima Island. Having been spent a childhood amongst the island's nature, he is incredibly knowledgeable about the hidden charms of Yakushima Island above and beyond the usual tourist attractions like the Jomon Sugi cedar or Mt. Miyanoura. Their popular Shiratani Unsui Gorge Exploration Tours take participants on a half-day to day-long trip through a moss-covered world said to have served as the inspiration for the setting of the film ""The Princess Mononoke."" Participants can experience this mystical world while listening to lectures on subjects including the origin of the forests and about the ecology of moss."
Sanpotei

4.0

23 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 2364-17

This dining bar on the banks of the Anbo River was established in 1975. It offers lunches and dinners made with lots of fresh ingredients sourced locally on Yakushima Island, as well as wines, original cocktails, and more. The bar's lodge-like interior features large windows that offer a head-on view of the nearby red bridge across the Anbo River. It offer children's lunches, full-course meals featuring dishes made with local Yakushima ingredients, and more, making it a great for a wide range of occasions such as dinner with the family or an anniversary party. At night, the bar transforms into a space just for adults where the jazz never stops playing.

I ate at the bar in the back room. Hip jazz music, great food, and nice vibe. Between my drink and food it was around ¥3500. But when it came time to pay, the bartender did not bring the bill and...
Chaya Hirano

4.0

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 2617-3

"This restaurant serves ""Yakuzen Ryori"" cuisine made with lots of ingredients sourced locally on Yakushima Island. It exclusively offers multi-course meals with dishes specifically selected by the chef to allow guests to fully experience the flavors of the island. Guests can enjoy island cuisine made with ingredients characteristic of a Yakushima Island including whole fried flying fish, Japanese goose barnacles, harlequin glorybower, and strawberry geranium. The restaurant sources the local vegetables and edible plants it uses in its food in close cooperation with local farmers and expert foragers."

Probably this is the best restauant I ever tried in Japan - minimum 20 plates of wonderful dishes, freshly prepared and soooo tasty. We were impressed and our Japanese friends as well !
Yakiniku Rengaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 410-74

"This yakiniku restaurant with a conspicuous red brick sign serves local venison, pork, beef, and chicken. The beef served at the restaurant is all A4 and A5 grade Kagoshima Kuroge Wagyu while their pork is all Kagoshima Kurobuta. The chicken they serve is also raised locally in Kagoshima Prefecture. Yakushima sika venison has a light flavor and lacks any gamey odor. Guests can enjoy common cuts such as loin and thigh as well as unusual cuts such as heart and liver. The spacious restaurant can seat up to 100 guests, making it a great for tour groups or events. A wide variety of take-out meals such as torimeshi (chicken rice), ""mixed-don (rice bowl topped with grilled chicken, pork, and beef),"" and ""service kalbi-don (rice bowl topped with grilled boneless short rib)"" are also available."
Yakudon

4.0

41 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 500-46

This restaurant located about a five-minute walk from Anbo Port serves the regional cuisine of Yakushima Island made was local ingredients. Their most popular dish is their crispy fried flying fish, a specialty of Yakushima. Each fish is scaled, gutted, and then fried whole with its wings spread out as if it was flying through the air. Their popular Yaku Udon Mankitsu sets, meanwhile, include a piping-hot fried flying fish, Yakushima-style udon noodles, which are served in a broth made from sababushi (shaved dried and smoked mackerel), and a bowl of soy-marinated flying fish sashimi on rice. Guests are greeted at the entrance by an impressive tiger carved from Yakusugi cedar.

Lovely restaurant with seaside views. They have English friendly menus with large variety of udon to choose from. Noodles were perfectly chewy with a balanced soup at a very reasonable price. There...
Kirankuya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 540-234

This soba restaurant marked by a small wooden sign is located in a thicket just beyond the end of a narrow seaside path. It serves soba noodles crafted carefully handcrafted using stone-ground buckwheat flour. Their broth is made with the pure water of Yakushima Island and blend of high-grade sababushi (dried mackerel) from Yakushima and high-grade katsuobushi (dried bonito) from Ibusuki City's Yamagawa-cho, which is famous for producing katsuobushi. It is popular for bringing out the refreshing fragrance of the lightly-flavored soba, which pairs incredibly well with their vegetable fritters. The restaurant also offers a full selection of a la carte dishes including grilled duck, tempura assortments, grilled pork with yuzukosho (yuzu zest and green chili paste), and more.
Yakushima Lighthouse

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Nagata

This chalk white lighthouse stands to the west of Inakahama Beach, one of Japan's biggest sea turtle nesting sites. First lit in 1897, it is the oldest lighthouse on Yakushima Island. It is also counted amongst the so-called Taiwan Route Lighthouses. The area below lighthouse where raging waves crash into deep granite reefs below is famous as a great fishing spot. The lighthouse insured the safety of boats traveling in Yakushima's coastal waters since its construction more than a century ago.
Yakushima Comprehensive Nature Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura

This nature park is located on the banks of the Miyanoura River. The roughly 80,000-square-meter park features a botanical garden, an outdoor stage, a rest house, and other facilities. The botanical garden, which is situated in the middle basin of the Miyanoura River, grows alpine plants and endemic species of Yakushima. Most notably, it grows and exhibits Yakushima rhododendron, one of the island's most exemplary species of flower. Seedlings of this rare plant are also available for purchase. Visitors with an advanced reservation can even enjoy bathing in the middle of a forest in the wood-fired Yunoko no Yu baths.
Ebisudaikoku Toshi

4.0

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 129

This restaurant located about a 10-minute walk from Miyanoura Port in Yakushima Island on serves local fish and shochu. Its most popular dish is fried flying fish, a quintessential delicacy of Yakushima Island that is edible from head to tail. The fish is notable for having firm flesh with a light and savory flavor that is uncharacteristically elegant for a blue-backed fish, a family that includes sardines. Some of the many other characteristic dishes of Yakushima on this popular restaurant's menu include sashimi of kubiore saba (mackerel with its head broken and blood drained immediately after being caught to preserve its freshness), Yakushima tsukiage (fried fish cakes made from flying fish), and more.

Le poisson volant grillé était exceptionnel, les sashimi excellents, le poulpe tendre, un des meilleurs mangé. Le rapport qualité prix est remarquable et les quantités copieuses (attention, les...
Washoku no Kaishu

4.0

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 2367-7

This restaurant is located on the same grounds as the guesthouse Minshuku Kaishu about a five-minute drive from Miyanoura Port. Guests can enjoy Japanese cuisine made with seasonal local fish. Their most popular dish is fried flying fish, a quintessential Yakushima delicacy consisting of a flying fish that is scaled, gutted, and fried whole. Every part of this crispy dish from the outstretched wings to the backbone is edible. Some of the other local Yakushima flavors available to enjoy including kubiore saba (mackerel with its head broken and blood drained immediately after it is caught to preserve its freshness), venison, and more.

併設のゲストハウスに宿泊した際の夕食で利用。チキンカツ600円、トビウオのから揚げ600円を注文したが量、味共に良し。定食もあるが単品で注文した方が、お得感があるし、種類を多く食べられる。中生600円、チューハイ450円は離島価格。地元民に人気があるらしく結構客が入ってました。
Kobana

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 2373-9

This restaurant located along the Miyanoura River operates as a diner that serves curry, pasta, and other fare during the day. At night it becomes an izayaka (Japanese pub) that serves a la carte dishes and alcoholic beverages. The cozy interior, which brims with the warmth of wood, has a homey atmosphere. During lunchtime, guests can enjoy the restaurant's special baked curries, set meals featuring seasonal local fish, and more. At night, Mitake, a Satsuma shochu born on the World Natural Heritage site that is Yakushima Island, makes an appearance. Guests can enjoy this distilled spirit together with a la carte dishes such as tempura of wild plants, handmade shio rakkyo (salted Japanese leeks), and hotaruika no okizuke (soy-pickled firefly squid).

Simple food but really nice. Huge portion though, had lunch there and we have to skip dinner!! Just beside the bus stop, so its really easy to go to. Theres a big supermarket opposite to the...
Yakushima Diving Service Mori-to-Umi

Leisure / Hobbies

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 2473-294

This diving service located about a 15-minute drive from Yakushima Airport. It offers easy-going and laid back diving tours with a focus on enjoying fish watching and underwater photography in the seas of Yakushima Island. The guide who leads each tour sees his role as an interpreter of nature. He says that diving was his passion before it was his job, so he continues to dive the seas of Yakushima Island every day regardless of whether he has any guests. The company's selling point is the broad knowledge and easy-to-understand commentary of a guide whose hobbies are wildlife observation and undersea photography.
Kaedean

4.5

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 421-5

This restaurant located about a five-minute drive from Miyanoura Port serves a menu focused on noodle dishes such as udon, and soba. Look for the yellow-green shop curtains. Their popular Yakushima ramen is an extravagant dish topped with slices of sababushi and grated Yakutoro yam. Sababushi is a popular delicacy of Yakushima Island made by smoke-drying filets of Yakusaba mackerel from the coastal waters around Yakushima Island. This concentrates the mackerel's natural savory flavor and gives it a strong smoky aroma. In addition to this and other noodle dishes such as moyashi (bean sprout) ramen and champon noodles chock full of vegetables and garlic, the restaurant also offers a wide variety of donburi (rice bowls) such as katsudon (fried pork cutlet on rice) and oyakodon (chicken and egg on rice).

おばちゃんにおススメを聞くと屋久島ラーメンとチャンポンが良く出ますよとの事。屋久島ラーメンとチャンポンを頼みました。大きめの器で、野菜たっぷりチャンポンニンニク入りはしっかり味。屋久島ラーメンはあっさりしながらコクのある味で美味しかったです。
Yakushima Nakagawa Sports

Shopping

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 421-6

This sporting goods shop pioneered Japan's hiking and climbing equipment rental service. Customers can rent hiking and climbing equipment such as trekking shoes and rainwear. The shop's knowledgeable and courteous staff is there to help novice hikers and climbers properly size their equipment and provide pointers on its use. One of their most popular rental packages is their five-piece day hike set, which provides the minimum equipment needed to enjoy a day hike for reasonable price. Most conveniently, there is no need to clean any of the equipment before returning it.
Okashishi Shingetsudo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 94

This Japanese confectionary shop is located about a 10-minute walk from Miyanoura Port. The shop, which has a history dating back more than five decades, makes and sells products with local ingredients. The flavorful sweets made by the shop's second-generation owner with choice natural ingredients include Shochu Gelee, a jelly made with Mitake premium sweet potato shochu, Yomogi pound cakes made with Yakushima mug wort, and baked donuts. Their sweets are especially popular as Yakushima souvenirs.
Aiko Mart

Shopping

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Koseda 12-5

This shop is located in the Koseda district near Yakushima Airport. The shop, which outwardly resembles a convenience store, sells bento boxes, daily necessities, alcoholic beverages, and other items. It is famous for being the official retailer of Aiko, a Yakushima honkaku shochu that during its heyday required getting onto a 10-month waiting list to buy a bottle. This distilled spirit with a noticeably sweet and savory flavor was named after Mt. Aiko, the mountain that towers behind the shop. Supplies of the 200 milliliter single serving bottles are limited to just two per customer. The shop carries a full lineup of shochu including the premium Satsuma sweet potato shochu Mitake.
Yakushima Guide Association

Leisure / Hobbies

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Koseda 1436-56

This tour guide service has been offering eco tours on Yakushima Island since 1989. Its objective is to contribute to be the development of Yakushima Island through a tourism business that protects the island's nature and culture while leveraging its rich resources. The tours are guided by a professional staff devoted to acquiring the knowledge needed to guide tours without damaging the natural environment. They are popular for allowing participants to viscerally experience the importance of the coexistence of humanity and plants by being connected to nature through the five senses. The company offers a full selection of rental equipment including trekking shoes and rainwear.
Suginoya Main Shop

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Koseda 324-31

"This copper-roofed shop located next to Yakushima Airport specializes in Yakusugi cedar woodcrafts. It manufactures and sells works of Yakusugi cedar woodcraft, which has been designated as a traditional handicraft of Kagoshima. This handicraft leverages the natural beauty of Yakusugi cedar, which has long been revered as sacred by the people of Yakushima Island. Cutting down live Yakusugi cedar trees has been banned, so the vast majority of Yakusugi cedar used today comes from ""domaiboku,"" which refers to the stumps of trees felled during the Edo period. The shop exhibits chopsticks, accessories, plates, pots, and other woodcrafts that capitalize on the beautiful wood grain and the appealing decayed appearance of Yakusugi cedar. It is also possible to try your hand at carving a pair of chopsticks out of thousand-year-old Yakusugi cedar (age 11 and up)."
Cafe Jurin

4.5

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Koseda 826-31

This cafe is located on the edge of a forest near Yakushima Airport. The scent of cedar fills the cafe, which serves carefully hand-dripped coffee, Yakushima-grown organic black tea, fresh homemade juices, and more. Most of the building is constructed from cedar, one of Yakushima's most characteristic products. You can feel closer to nature at the cafe, which seems to exist in harmony with the surrounding trees. Guests can browse and purchase the local information magazines and Yakushima-related books in display in the cafe, which also sells souvenirs and local specialties.

Stopped here for coffee and dessert one day while driving around Yakushima. About 12km south of Miyanoura Port, just off Rte. 77, a great place for coffee, tea, lunch, cakes. Friendly service, very...

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Kagoshima Areas

Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.