Cable car · Shiozawa, Japan
湯沢高原ロープウェイ
湯沢高原ロープウェイ is a cable car near Shiozawa, Japan. It climbs 504 m over 1.22 km, from 364 m to 868 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 72 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
71/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 湯沢高原ロープウェイ is scarier than 71% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 38 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 72 m, as high as a 24-storey building, 151 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 529 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 391 m of the 1.22 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 湯沢高原ロープウェイ is near Shiozawa, Japan, at 364 m above sea level (36.94006° N, 138.80404° E). From there it runs 1.22 km up to the top station at 868 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Per cabin
- 166 people
Nearby lines
- ランドー (Landau) cable car · 1.1 km away · rises 68 m
- ディリジャンス (Diligence) gondola · 1.5 km away · rises 471 m
- みつまたロープウェイ (mitsumata ropeway) cable car · 5.6 km away · rises 249 m
- かぐらゴンドラ (Kagura Gondola) gondola · 8.4 km away · rises 413 m
- 田代ロープウェー (Tashiro Ropeway) cable car · 10.6 km away · rises 606 m
- ドラゴンドラ (Dragondola) gondola · 13.2 km away · rises 426 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.