Cable car · Muikamachi, Japan
八海山ロープウェイ (Hakkaisan Ropeway)
八海山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Muikamachi, Japan. It climbs 771 m over 2.10 km, from 380 m to 1,151 m above sea level. Between its 5 pylons, the cable runs up to about 52 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
64/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, 八海山ロープウェイ is scarier than 64% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 48 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 52 m, as high as a 17-storey building, 302 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 615 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 26°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 121 m of the 2.10 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 八海山ロープウェイ is near Muikamachi, Japan, at 380 m above sea level (37.10899° N, 138.97867° E). From there it runs 2.10 km up to the top station at 1,151 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Per cabin
- 81 people
- Ride time
- about 6 min
Nearby lines
- ディリジャンス (Diligence) gondola · 25.3 km away · rises 471 m
- 湯沢高原ロープウェイ cable car · 25.9 km away · rises 504 m
- ランドー (Landau) cable car · 26.6 km away · rises 68 m
- みつまたロープウェイ (mitsumata ropeway) cable car · 31.3 km away · rises 249 m
- 谷川岳ロープウェイ (Tanigawadake Ropeway) gondola · 32.4 km away · rises 569 m
- かぐらゴンドラ (Kagura Gondola) gondola · 34.3 km away · rises 413 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.