Cable car · Otaru, Japan
観光ロープウェイ (Sightseeing Ropeway)
観光ロープウェイ is a cable car near Otaru, Japan. It climbs 267 m over 676 m, from 205 m to 472 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 73 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
72/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 観光ロープウェイ is scarier than 72% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 33 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 73 m, as high as a 24-storey building, 406 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 676 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 22°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 391 m of the 676 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 観光ロープウェイ is near Otaru, Japan, at 205 m above sea level (43.17781° N, 140.97510° E). From there it runs 676 m up to the top station at 472 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- ゲートウェイエクスプレス (Gateway Express) gondola · 11.7 km away · rises 43 m
- キロロゴンドラ (Kiroro Gondola) gondola · 12.8 km away · rises 611 m
- スカイキャビン8 (Sky Cabin 8) gondola · 14.0 km away · rises 467 m
- エイトゴンドラ (Eight Gondola) gondola · 21.2 km away · rises 152 m
- もーりすカー (Morris Car) funicular · 33.1 km away · rises 59 m
- もいわ山ロープウェイ (Moiwayama Ropeway) cable car · 33.2 km away · rises 377 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.