Yakushima’s ethereally lovely valley closed to guests following storm injury.
With Hurricane Shanshan (or Hurricane Quantity 10, because it was known as in Japan’s numerically primarily based naming system) having dissipated, the time comes for Japan to survey the injury brought on. As with most typhoons, Shanshan got here up from the southwest, hitting that a part of Japan the toughest, and its winds had been so sturdy that it snapped a 3,000-year-old tree on the island of Yakushima in two.
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※レク森HPで情報を掲載しています。https://t.co/Hxt1Osf45j pic.twitter.com/Oo97Sq4llb— 屋久島観光協会 (@InfoYakushima) September 1, 2024
The Yayoi Sugi/Yayoi Cedar is, or fairly was, a 26.1-meter (85.6-foot) tall cedar tree standing in Yakushima’s Shiratani Unsuikyo, an ethereally lovely, densely forested valley that famously served as inspiration for the magical setting of Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke anime movie. The Yayoi Cedar is estimated to be 3,000 years outdated, and its majestic, humbling presence makes it one of many major sights for hikers on Yakushima, a lot in order that there’s a selected Yayoi Sugi path that results in it.
▼ The Yayoi Cedar (high left) and Yayoi Cedar path, previous to the storm
昨日の振り返り
弥生杉コースで屋久島の森にちょっとだけお邪魔した
何か出てきそうな雰囲気はあった pic.twitter.com/rLoNvJhrnR— 雨神 BK-ysk (@BK_ysk) April 28, 2023
▼ This video opens with footage of the tree in 2004, and although that was 20 years in the past, that’s a fairly small span of time in comparison with its whole age.
Sadly, after the storm handed out of the Yakushima space, on August 31 an area tour information went out to examine the situations of the Yayoi Cedar path, and located the trail blocked by landslides at a number of factors. Worst of all, when the information finally did handle to achieve the Yayoi Cedar, she noticed that the trunk had snapped close to the roots, with the damaged off portion mendacity horizontal after falling.
Mercifully, your entire tree wasn’t uprooted, but it surely’s unclear if the injury is one thing that the Yayoi Cedar can get well and develop again from. The native forestry authorities are at the moment investigating the most effective plan of action to take, and in the interim Shiratani Unsuikyo is closed to customer entry whereas the paths are being repaired.
Supply: Yomiuri Shimbun through Livedoor Information through Jin, Yakushima no Tabi
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