Cable car · Omihachiman, Japan
八幡山ロープウェー (Hachiman'yama Ropeway)
八幡山ロープウェー is a cable car near Omihachiman, Japan. It climbs 154 m over 531 m, from 97 m to 252 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 25 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
10/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, 八幡山ロープウェー is scarier than 10% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 142 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 25 m, as high as a 8-storey building, 364 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 531 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 16°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 八幡山ロープウェー is near Omihachiman, Japan, at 97 m above sea level (35.14137° N, 136.08887° E). From there it runs 531 m up to the top station at 252 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1962-11-23
- Per cabin
- 25 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Cable car near Kitahama cable car · 18.4 km away · rises 780 m
- 比叡山鉄道 (Hieizan Railway) funicular · 23.2 km away · rises 202 m
- 叡山ロープウェイ cable car · 25.3 km away · rises 135 m
- 京福電気鉄道鋼索線 (Keifuku Cable Line) funicular · 26.0 km away · rises 547 m
- 鞍馬寺ケーブル (Kurama-dera Cable) funicular · 28.7 km away · rises 76 m
- 箱館山ゴンドラ gondola · 33.4 km away · rises 446 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.