Cable car · Shizuoka-shi, Japan
日本平ロープウェイ (Nihondaira Ropeway)
日本平ロープウェイ is a cable car near Shizuoka-shi, Japan. It climbs 122 m over 1.06 km, from 154 m to 275 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 89 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
71/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 日本平ロープウェイ is scarier than 71% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 37 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 89 m, as high as a 30-storey building, 263 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 559 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 11°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 271 m of the 1.06 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 日本平ロープウェイ is near Shizuoka-shi, Japan, at 154 m above sea level (34.96424° N, 138.46652° E). From there it runs 1.06 km up to the top station at 275 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
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.