Yakushima is in Japan, in Yakushima. This sheet answers with open data: what the place is, where it sits at GPS precision and which notable attractions lie a few kilometers away.
Data sheet
What it is
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Country
Japan
City or region
Yakushima
Coordinates
30.3586 N, 130.5286 E
UNESCO World Heritage
Yes (site or site component)
Notability (sitelinks)
60
The 5 closest notable attractions
Attraction
Country
Distance (km)
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
Japan
312.3
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
Japan
460.3
Itsukushima Shrine
Japan
469.0
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Japan
483.5
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Japan
483.6
The closest neighbor is Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region, 312.3 km away in a straight line. The table above answers the question every itinerary starts with: what else is nearby?
The name in 3 languages
Português
Yakushima
English
Yakushima
Español
Yakushima
Source and method
Source
Wikidata (CC0), snapshot of 2026-07-09
Distances
Haversine over 30.3586 N, 130.5286 E and the 2,000 attractions in the snapshot
Notability
Yakushima: 60 sitelinks; closest neighbor Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region at 312.3 km