Those who have seen Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke would have remember its beautiful forest. For Today’s Japan Photo, we will be travelling to is based Yakushima 屋久島 which provided the inspiration for Princess Mononoke.
This lovely shot of the forest was taken by kunikuni@. You can still see the light rays piercing through the thick forest, which makes it seems magical.
Yakushima (屋久島), one of the Ōsumi Islands, is an island of about 500 km² to the south of Kyūshū in Kagoshima Prefecture,Japan. It is covered in dense forest noted especially for old growth Cryptomeria trees known as Sugi in Japan and magnificent Rhododendrons. Yakushima’s unique remnant of a warm-temperate ancient forest is a natural World Heritage Site since 1993.
