Before we start, let me set one thing straight: if you’re planning to do the Jomonsugi Hike, that is at least a 10-hour ordeal and you will definitely want to stay on Yakushima for at least two nights. Otherwise, you’d better have a car and great planning with the ferries.
We good? Cool. Let’s talk Yakushima.
I don’t go through my old photos nearly as often as I should. There are a lot of gems in there, and many of them fill me with a rush of nostalgia. The other day I was browsing through my summer vacation photos and I stumbled across when I spent a week or so in Kyushu, an island south of Honshu in Japan that is home to boatloads of delicious food and sightseeing places that people rarely manage to put on their “to see” lists when coming to Japan.
Stefanie, What?! 