Luis Lan recounts visiting the Yakusugi Museum on Yakushima Island, recommending the paid guided audio tour (he regrets not buying it for about $25). He highlights exhibits showing old tools used to harvest Yakusugi wood and emphasizes how dense and heavy the large wood blocks are—mentioning trees described as "almost 7,000 year old."
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"almost 7,000 year old" (phrase used by the narrator)
We ended up going to the Yakusugi Museum. One regret that I had was not paying. I think it was the 25 bucks to get the guided audio tour. I thought it was enough just reading everything, but definitely feel like we would have gotten a lot more information through the guided audio tour. If you definitely go to it, I definitely recommend doing the audio tour and checking it out. A lot of old tools that you got to see on how they chop down these almost 7,000 year old trees, as well as how dense this this wood really is compared to other ones. We tried lifting some of the blocks and holy cow, they were really heavy. Yakusugi Museum World Heritage those are some big pieces of wood. That's a big tree.
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