The Yakusugi Museum

The Yakusugi Museum great place to learn about the history of cedars, the logging industry, the locals, the island and its forests. Wonderful hands on the exhibits and a wonderful tiny gift / souvenir area. This museum offers a nice introduction to the yakushima cedar, where you can learn about the trees themselves and their classification, as well as the history of the island and logging. There are several films that describe the history of the islands.
Yakushima, along with the Shirakami Mountains, was first inscribed on the World Heritage List in Japan in 1993 as a natural heritage site.
Yakushima's heritage site is about 10,747 hectares, which is about 20% of the island. This is an area that almost resonates with the primary nature protection zone, the special nature protection territory of the national park and the first special zone. Most of them are also protected areas for protection of forest ecosystems of national forests and are areas that have not been recorded since the Meiji era.