Cable car · Sapporo, Japan
もいわ山ロープウェイ (Moiwayama Ropeway)
もいわ山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Sapporo, Japan. It climbs 377 m over 1.16 km, from 84 m to 460 m above sea level. Between its 4 pylons, the cable runs up to about 94 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
80/100 · Scary
By the numbers, もいわ山ロープウェイ is scarier than 80% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 17 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 94 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 688 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 824 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 21°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 629 m of the 1.16 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of もいわ山ロープウェイ is near Sapporo, Japan, at 84 m above sea level (43.03149° N, 141.33302° E). From there it runs 1.16 km up to the top station at 460 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- もーりすカー (Morris Car) funicular · 0.7 km away · rises 59 m
- エイトゴンドラ (Eight Gondola) gondola · 12.1 km away · rises 152 m
- スカイキャビン8 (Sky Cabin 8) gondola · 21.6 km away · rises 467 m
- キロロゴンドラ (Kiroro Gondola) gondola · 26.4 km away · rises 611 m
- ゲートウェイエクスプレス (Gateway Express) gondola · 28.3 km away · rises 43 m
- 観光ロープウェイ (Sightseeing Ropeway) cable car · 33.2 km away · rises 267 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.