Cable car · Kobe, Japan
須磨浦ロープウェイ (Sumaura Ropeway)
須磨浦ロープウェイ is a cable car near Kobe, Japan. It climbs 192 m over 431 m, from 22 m to 214 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 34 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
28/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, 須磨浦ロープウェイ is scarier than 28% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 102 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 34 m, as high as a 11-storey building, 193 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 431 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 24°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 須磨浦ロープウェイ is near Kobe, Japan, at 22 m above sea level (34.63787° N, 135.10014° E). From there it runs 431 m up to the top station at 214 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Nearby lines
- カーレーター cable car · 0.3 km away · rises 1 m
- 神戸布引ロープウェイ gondola · 11.7 km away · rises 327 m
- 神戸市都市整備公社営摩耶ケーブル線 (Kobe Maya Cable) funicular · 14.2 km away · rises 308 m
- Cable car near Kobe cable car · 14.3 km away · rises 228 m
- 六甲摩耶鉄道六甲ケーブル線 (Rokko Cable Line) funicular · 17.7 km away · rises 188 m
- 六甲有馬ロープウェイ裏六甲線 (Rokko Arima RopeWay) cable car · 20.6 km away · rises 438 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.