Cable car · Kobe, Japan
Cable car near Kobe
Cable car near Kobe is a cable car near Kobe, Japan. It climbs 228 m over 850 m, from 466 m to 694 m above sea level. Between its 4 pylons, the cable runs up to about 130 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
85/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Cable car near Kobe is scarier than 85% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 11 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 130 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 396 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 835 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 15°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 686 m of the 850 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Cable car near Kobe is near Kobe, Japan, at 466 m above sea level (34.72741° N, 135.21132° E). From there it runs 850 m up to the top station at 694 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- 神戸市都市整備公社営摩耶ケーブル線 (Kobe Maya Cable) funicular · 0.9 km away · rises 308 m
- 神戸布引ロープウェイ gondola · 2.7 km away · rises 327 m
- 六甲摩耶鉄道六甲ケーブル線 (Rokko Cable Line) funicular · 3.4 km away · rises 188 m
- 六甲有馬ロープウェイ裏六甲線 (Rokko Arima RopeWay) cable car · 6.4 km away · rises 438 m
- 須磨浦ロープウェイ (Sumaura Ropeway) cable car · 14.3 km away · rises 192 m
- カーレーター cable car · 14.3 km away · rises 1 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.