Cable car · Hakodate, Japan
函館山ロープウェイ (Hakodateyama Ropeway)
函館山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Hakodate, Japan. It climbs 282 m over 791 m, from 44 m to 326 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 68 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
71/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 函館山ロープウェイ is scarier than 71% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 39 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 68 m, as high as a 23-storey building, 508 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 791 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 20°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 328 m of the 791 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 函館山ロープウェイ is near Hakodate, Japan, at 44 m above sea level (41.76092° N, 140.71418° E). From there it runs 791 m up to the top station at 326 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Ride time
- about 3 min
Nearby lines
- 七飯ゴンドラ gondola · 24.1 km away · rises 658 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.