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13382 ／みくらじまむら

Mikurajima Village

The mikoshi races down the shrine steps.

Inane Shrine, annual festival

01 ／ Tsuge of Miyogaike

Tsuge boxwood, whose cutting season andnumber were regulated under the island's priest.

The Tokyo Board of Education says the natural tsuge forest on the slope at Miyogaike has nine giant trees over 1 m in trunk girth, generally estimated at over 300 years old. The lower half of the mountain's tsuge is said to have been felled in the Genroku-Kyoho years, and entry times and quantities were later regulated.

Tokyo Natural Monument (Mar. 15, 2007)
9 giant trees, girth over 1 m
Largest trunk girth: 175 cm

02 ／ Daijii of Mikura

Daijii, in the giant-tree forest of Nango,is a village-designated Natural Monument.

The Ministry of the Environment's giant tree survey (announced October 2001) reported Mikurajima's Daijii, in the Nango giant-tree forest, as a sudajii chinquapin with a trunk girth of 1,379 cm at 1.3 m above ground. The village designated it a Natural Monument on October 31, 2012.

Trunk girth 1,379 cm (Ministry survey, announced 2001)
Village Natural Monument (Oct. 31, 2012)

03 ／ Mikurajima School

The school opened in 1878; today's buildingis a six-story, terraced structure.

The village board of education says Mikurajima has long been keen on schooling and opened a school in 1878 (Meiji 11). A joint elementary and junior high building was completed in 1975, and a new building replaced it in 2000: six stories, built in terraces.

Opened in 1878
Six stories, terraced
Joint elementary and junior high

Mikurajima Village from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot May 2020)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

From Takeshiba in Tokyo, 7.5 hours by night ship.

about 1,000 people

A Tokai Kisen large passenger ship leaves Takeshiba Pier at 22:30 and reaches Mikurajima at 6:00 the next morning via Miyakejima. The village board of education notes a daily large passenger ship from Tokyo. The island has one pier and no railway station.

People living here: 323people
Area: 20.39km²
Households: 187households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 1 clinic

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —0 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Mikurajima Village in Japan33.897°N 139.596°E

to TokyoTokai Kisen450min

Travel times follow 東海汽船の英語版ダイヤ（https://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ca321ca9f6cb9445c87f9e0b91b9e5ad.pdf ・PDF 更新2026-08-17・Large passenger ship service period: Oct 1 to Apr 4）の Tokyo to Miyakejima, Mikurashima, and Hachijojima routes：Ferry Service Code 3400・Service Day『Daily』・Tokyo Depart 22:30→Miyake Arrive 5:00／Depart 5:10→Mikura Arrive 6:00／Depart 6:05→Hachijojima Arrive 8:55。観光協会も『毎日 22:30発→05:55着』 (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 0 municipalities.

Territory of Mikurajima Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

27.8km

Mikurajima Village isthis kind of town.

01Inane Shrine is the island's shrine. Its annual festival is held in early August: the first day is a visit to the main shrine deep in the hills, and on the second the mikoshi run down the shrine steps and parade around the island
02Tokyo designations include the intangible folk cultural property "Songs and Dances of Mikurajima" and the historic site Zo Ruins, both designated on February 21, 1957. The village board of education notes dwelling remains from the early Jomon period
03The village board of education describes the island as a breeding ground for about one million streaked shearwaters, with rivers, waterfalls, deep forest and many giant trees

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Mikurajima Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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