Cable car · Otsu-shi, Japan
叡山ロープウェイ
叡山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Otsu-shi, Japan. It climbs 135 m over 454 m, from 686 m to 821 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 46 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
30/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, 叡山ロープウェイ is scarier than 30% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 96 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 46 m, as high as a 15-storey building, 120 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 256 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 17°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 叡山ロープウェイ is near Otsu-shi, Japan, at 686 m above sea level (35.06475° N, 135.82261° E). From there it runs 454 m up to the top station at 821 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Ride time
- about 3 min
Nearby lines
- 京福電気鉄道鋼索線 (Keifuku Cable Line) funicular · 0.9 km away · rises 547 m
- 比叡山鉄道 (Hieizan Railway) funicular · 2.1 km away · rises 202 m
- 鞍馬寺ケーブル (Kurama-dera Cable) funicular · 7.4 km away · rises 76 m
- Cable car near Kitahama cable car · 17.4 km away · rises 780 m
- 石清水八幡宮参道ケーブル (Iwashimizu-Hachimangu-Sando-Cable) funicular · 23.3 km away · rises 23 m
- 八幡山ロープウェー (Hachiman'yama Ropeway) cable car · 25.3 km away · rises 154 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.