Yorojima (与路島) is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.
[1]| The island, 9.35 km² in area, has a population of approximately 140 persons, and is administered as the town of Setouchi, Kagoshima, on neighboring Amami-Oshima.
Yorojima is the smallest inhabited island in the Amami archipelago, and is located offshore to the south of Amami-Ōshima, from which it can be reached by ferry in 80 minutes.
After the Meiji Restoration the island was incorporated into Ōsumi Province and later became part of Kagoshima Prefecture.
Following World War II, although with the other Amami Islands, it was occupied by the United States until 1953, at which time it reverted to the control of Japan.