• Viewfinder: With a special panoramic camera on his back, a Google employee treks across Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in February to take images for the search engine's Street View service. Google says the views of the World Heritage site will be available online possibly by this summer. | GOOGLE INC./KYODO
    Viewfinder: With a special panoramic camera on his back, a Google employee treks across Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in February to take images for the search engine's Street View service. Google says the views of the World Heritage site will be available online possibly by this summer. | GOOGLE INC./KYODO

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KAGOSHIMA – Panoramic shots taken from mountain trails on Yakushima Island, a World Natural Heritage site, will be available online via Google Inc.’s Street View service, possibly this summer, according to the Japanese unit of the U.S. Internet giant.

Google staff spent an arduous two days in February trekking an 11-km route between the Arakawa trailhead and an observatory for the world-famous Jomon cedar tree, carrying equipment capable of capturing 360-degree views, it said.

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