Yaese
Yaese is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Yaese is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Yaese
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lake Man
Lake Man is an area of wetlands in Okinawa that is located between the cities of Naha and Tomigusuku, and within Manko Park. Despite being called "Lake Man", it is in fact a wetland and not a lake.
5.5 km · lake in Japan · Wikipedia - 02Shikina-en
The gardens of Shikina-en are located on a small hill to the south of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa. The residence and its gardens are also known as Sichina-nu-udun or Nan'en, as opposed to the Tōen of Uchaya-udun, laid out on a small hill east of Shuri Castle in 1677.
5.1 km · hilled gardens south of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yaese
- Airports
- Naha (OKA), 9 km
- Kagoshima → Yaese664 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · ¥32,450–47,340
- Miyazaki → Yaese736 km · quickest by air, 6h 22m · ¥23,990–36,090
- Nagasaki → Yaese765 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · ¥30,180–44,900
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Yaese
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Yaese. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerry services to Okinawa have been cut drastically, with Arimura Sangyo filing for bankruptcy and RKK Line stopping passenger services entirely.
- Get inAs of 2014, the only survivors are A-Line Ferry, aka Maru-A (マルエー), which runs twice a week from Kagoshima (25 hours, ¥16,000 2nd class one-way) and once a week from both Osaka/Kobe and Tokyo (44 hours, ¥28,000) to Naha, and Marix Line, which runs between Kagoshima and Naha only.
- Get inAll ferries call at various minor islands including Yoron and Amami Oshima along the way.
- Go nextSouthern Okinawa - Many WW2 historical sites Central Okinawa - US military bases, pottery villages, castle ruins Northern Okinawa - The wildest and remotest part of Okinawa Island Kerama Islands - Regular ferry connections are available between Naha harbor and this nearby group of islands.
- Go nextGreat for a day trip or a few days to experience a more isolated tropical experience.
From Wikivoyage: Naha, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Yaese
Yaese is 7 km from Naha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Ōzatodissolved municipality in Shimajiri district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan3.3 km