Cable car · Tonosho, Japan
寒霞渓ロープウェイ (Kankakei Ropeway)
寒霞渓ロープウェイ is a cable car near Tonosho, Japan. It climbs 312 m over 855 m, from 299 m to 611 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 49 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
53/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, 寒霞渓ロープウェイ is scarier than 53% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 61 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 49 m, as high as a 16-storey building, 510 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 855 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 20°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 寒霞渓ロープウェイ is near Tonosho, Japan, at 299 m above sea level (34.50864° N, 134.29642° E). From there it runs 855 m up to the top station at 611 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- 八栗ケーブル funicular · 22.9 km away · rises 157 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.