Cable car · Shimonoseki, Japan
火の山ロープウェイ
火の山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Shimonoseki, Japan. It climbs 174 m over 411 m, from 49 m to 223 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 33 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
24/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, 火の山ロープウェイ is scarier than 24% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 108 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 33 m, as high as a 11-storey building, 183 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 411 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 火の山ロープウェイ is near Shimonoseki, Japan, at 49 m above sea level (33.96795° N, 130.95735° E). From there it runs 411 m up to the top station at 223 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- 帆柱ケーブル帆柱ケーブル funicular · 19.9 km away · rises 439 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.