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Cable car · Toyooka, Japan

城崎温泉ロープウェイ (Kinosaki Ropeway)

城崎温泉ロープウェイ is a cable car near Toyooka, Japan. It climbs 205 m over 637 m, from 23 m to 228 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 45 m above the ground.

How scary is it?

39/100 · Gentle

By the numbers, 城崎温泉ロープウェイ is scarier than 39% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 79 of 160 in Japan.

  • Highest above the ground: about 45 m, as high as a 15-storey building, 135 m after the bottom station.
  • Longest stretch without a pylon: 304 m.
  • Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.

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Where does it start?

The bottom station of 城崎温泉ロープウェイ is near Toyooka, Japan, at 23 m above sea level (35.62523° N, 134.80378° E). From there it runs 637 m up to the top station at 228 m.

Opened
1963-05
Per cabin
31 people
Ride time
about 7 min

Nearby lines

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.