Gondola · Sapporo, Japan
エイトゴンドラ (Eight Gondola)
エイトゴンドラ is a gondola near Sapporo, Japan. It climbs 152 m over 1.43 km, from 428 m to 580 m above sea level. Between its 9 pylons, the cable runs up to about 41 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
17/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, エイトゴンドラ is scarier than 17% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 121 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 41 m, as high as a 14-storey building, 708 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 240 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 13°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of エイトゴンドラ is near Sapporo, Japan, at 428 m above sea level (43.09509° N, 141.21107° E). From there it runs 1.43 km up to the top station at 580 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- スカイキャビン8 (Sky Cabin 8) gondola · 11.3 km away · rises 467 m
- もーりすカー (Morris Car) funicular · 12.0 km away · rises 59 m
- もいわ山ロープウェイ (Moiwayama Ropeway) cable car · 12.1 km away · rises 377 m
- キロロゴンドラ (Kiroro Gondola) gondola · 16.4 km away · rises 611 m
- ゲートウェイエクスプレス (Gateway Express) gondola · 18.0 km away · rises 43 m
- 観光ロープウェイ (Sightseeing Ropeway) cable car · 21.2 km away · rises 267 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.