Cable car · Chino, Japan
北八ヶ岳ロープウェイ (Kitayatsugatake Ropeway)
北八ヶ岳ロープウェイ is a cable car near Chino, Japan. It climbs 463 m over 2.10 km, from 1,765 m to 2,228 m above sea level. Between its 5 pylons, the cable runs up to about 69 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
72/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 北八ヶ岳ロープウェイ is scarier than 72% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 35 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 69 m, as high as a 23-storey building, 1.57 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 803 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 21°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 446 m of the 2.10 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 北八ヶ岳ロープウェイ is near Chino, Japan, at 1,765 m above sea level (36.06839° N, 138.30243° E). From there it runs 2.10 km up to the top station at 2,228 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Ride time
- about 7 min
Nearby lines
- 蓼科牧場ゴンドラリフト gondola · 6.7 km away · rises 267 m
- ゴンドラすずらん (Gondola Suzuran) gondola · 21.3 km away · rises 728 m
- こいのぼり号 funicular · 25.4 km away · rises 85 m
- Funicular near Komoro funicular · 34.2 km away · rises 46 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.