Yaeyama may refer to one of several naval ships of Japan:
, a Japanese-built cruiser of French design built for the Imperial Japanese Navy; participated in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War; scrapped in 1911 , a World War II minelayer in the Imperial Japanese Navy; sunk by American carrier-based aircraft near Palawan Island in September 1944 , the lead ship of the of wooden-hulled minesweepers for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force; launched in 1991