Cable car · Shimoda, Japan
下田ロープウェイ (Shimoda Ropeway)
下田ロープウェイ is a cable car near Shimoda, Japan. It climbs 157 m over 518 m, from 4 m to 161 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 45 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
42/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, 下田ロープウェイ is scarier than 42% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 75 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 45 m, as high as a 15-storey building, 237 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 518 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 17°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 下田ロープウェイ is near Shimoda, Japan, at 4 m above sea level (34.67885° N, 138.94616° E). From there it runs 518 m up to the top station at 161 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1961-04-01
- Operator
- 下田ロープウェイ
- Per cabin
- 39 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- 伊豆の国パノラマパークロープウェイ (Izunokuni Panorama Park Ropeway) cable car · 38.0 km away · rises 410 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.