Japan 🇯🇵 Yakushima Island
Yakushima is a Japanese island, 60 km south of Kyushu, part of Kagoshima Prefecture. Rich fauna, including deer and monkeys, picturesque mountains and waterfalls, thermal springs attract up to 300 thousand tourists a year to the island.
The island has 30 peaks over 1000 m high. In the center of the island rises Mount Miyianouka with a height of 1935 m.
Yakushima Island is one of the few places where a fairly large number of monkeys still live in undisturbed forest areas. But even here, due to the fact that this island has become a favorite vacation spot for many Japanese, there is a threat to their habitats.
Yakushima Island in 1993 became Japan’s first natural site to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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