Cable car · Tsukuba, Japan
筑波山ロープウェイ (Tsukubasan Ropeway)
筑波山ロープウェイ is a cable car near Tsukuba, Japan. It climbs 304 m over 1.26 km, from 532 m to 835 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 86 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
74/100 · Scary
By the numbers, 筑波山ロープウェイ is scarier than 74% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 29 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 86 m, as high as a 29-storey building, 970 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 613 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 16°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 386 m of the 1.26 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 筑波山ロープウェイ is near Tsukuba, Japan, at 532 m above sea level (36.21981° N, 140.11888° E). From there it runs 1.26 km up to the top station at 835 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Ride time
- about 6 min
Nearby lines
- 筑波山ケーブルカー (Tsukubasan Cable Car) funicular · 0.8 km away · rises 496 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.