Cable car · Yonezawa, Japan
天元台ロープウェイ (Tengendai Ropeway)
天元台ロープウェイ is a cable car near Yonezawa, Japan. It climbs 376 m over 887 m, from 931 m to 1,307 m above sea level. Between its 5 pylons, the cable runs up to about 56 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
58/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, 天元台ロープウェイ is scarier than 58% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 54 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 56 m, as high as a 19-storey building, 370 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 292 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 31°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 30 m of the 887 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 天元台ロープウェイ is near Yonezawa, Japan, at 931 m above sea level (37.77566° N, 140.12353° E). From there it runs 887 m up to the top station at 1,307 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Ride time
- about 5 min
Nearby lines
- ゴンドラ, Inawashiro gondola · 7.7 km away · rises 380 m
- アルツゴンドラ gondola · 21.5 km away · rises 444 m
- 磐梯山ロープゥエイ (Mt. Bandai Ropeway) gondola · 21.8 km away · rises 415 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.