Cable car · Hakuba, Japan
栂池ロープウェイ (Tsugaike Ropeway)
栂池ロープウェイ is a cable car near Hakuba, Japan. It climbs 245 m over 1.15 km, from 1,578 m to 1,823 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 66 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
66/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, 栂池ロープウェイ is scarier than 66% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 45 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 66 m, as high as a 22-storey building, 361 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 662 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 13°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 391 m of the 1.15 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 栂池ロープウェイ is near Hakuba, Japan, at 1,578 m above sea level (36.76664° N, 137.83176° E). From there it runs 1.15 km up to the top station at 1,823 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 700 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 71 people
- Ride time
- about 5 min
Nearby lines
- Eve Gondola gondola · 2.5 km away · rises 745 m
- ノア (Noah) gondola · 5.7 km away · rises 527 m
- 八方ゴンドラリフト「アダム」 (Gondola Adam) gondola · 7.8 km away · rises 622 m
- ゴンドラリフトLine8 (Gondola Lift Line 8) gondola · 10.0 km away · rises 352 m
- 五竜テレキャビン (Goryu Telecabine) gondola · 11.9 km away · rises 701 m
- 黒部ケーブルカー (Kurobe Cable Car) funicular · 27.3 km away · rises 302 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.