Cable car · Kobe, Japan
カーレーター
カーレーター is a cable car near Kobe, Japan. It climbs 1 m over 185 m, from 212 m to 213 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 32 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
1/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, カーレーター is scarier than 1% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 153 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 32 m, as high as a 11-storey building, 154 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 77 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 0°.
Where does it start?
カーレーター runs 185 m between two stations near Kobe, Japan: the south station at 212 m above sea level (34.64026° N, 135.09652° E) and the north station at 213 m (34.64029° N, 135.09652° E).
Directions to the south station ↗ Directions to the north station ↗
- Capacity
- 1,880 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 2 people
- Ride time
- about 20 s
Nearby lines
- 須磨浦ロープウェイ (Sumaura Ropeway) cable car · 0.3 km away · rises 192 m
- 神戸布引ロープウェイ gondola · 11.7 km away · rises 327 m
- 神戸市都市整備公社営摩耶ケーブル線 (Kobe Maya Cable) funicular · 14.2 km away · rises 308 m
- Cable car near Kobe cable car · 14.3 km away · rises 228 m
- 六甲摩耶鉄道六甲ケーブル線 (Rokko Cable Line) funicular · 17.7 km away · rises 188 m
- 六甲有馬ロープウェイ裏六甲線 (Rokko Arima RopeWay) cable car · 20.6 km away · rises 438 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.