Cable car · Hakone, Japan
箱根駒ヶ岳ロープウェー (Hakone Mount Koma Ropeway)
箱根駒ヶ岳ロープウェー is a cable car near Hakone, Japan. It climbs 594 m over 1.69 km, from 745 m to 1,339 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 92 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
80/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 箱根駒ヶ岳ロープウェー is scarier than 80% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 18 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 92 m, as high as a 31-storey building, 956 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 769 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 632 m of the 1.69 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 箱根駒ヶ岳ロープウェー is near Hakone, Japan, at 745 m above sea level (35.21324° N, 139.01025° E). From there it runs 1.69 km up to the top station at 1,339 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1963-04-27
- Operator
- プリンスホテル
- Per cabin
- 101 people
- Ride time
- about 7 min
Nearby lines
- 箱根ロープウェイ (Hakone Ropeway), 742–1,038 m gondola · 3.0 km away · rises 296 m
- 箱根ロープウェイ (Hakone Ropeway), 758–1,042 m gondola · 3.1 km away · rises 284 m
- 小田急箱根鋼索線 (Hakone Tozan Cable Car) funicular · 4.0 km away · rises 212 m
- 十国鋼索線 (Jukkokutōge Cable Car) funicular · 10.3 km away · rises 94 m
- アタミロープウェイ (Atami Ropeway) cable car · 15.6 km away · rises 103 m
- 伊豆の国パノラマパークロープウェイ (Izunokuni Panorama Park Ropeway) cable car · 23.6 km away · rises 410 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.