Cable car · Yoshino-cho, Japan
吉野ロープウェイ (Yoshino Ropeway)
吉野ロープウェイ is a cable car near Yoshino-cho, Japan. It climbs 89 m over 312 m, from 222 m to 311 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 23 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
4/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, 吉野ロープウェイ is scarier than 4% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 150 of 160 in Japan.
- Highest above the ground: about 23 m, as high as a 8-storey building, 89 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 312 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 16°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of 吉野ロープウェイ is near Yoshino-cho, Japan, at 222 m above sea level (34.37512° N, 135.85400° E). From there it runs 312 m up to the top station at 311 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1929-03-12
- Operator
- 吉野大峯ケーブル自動車
- Capacity
- 28 people per hour
Nearby lines
- 金剛山ロープウェイ (Mount Kongo Ropeway) cable car · 17.3 km away · rises 267 m
- 金剛山ロープウェイ (Mount Katsuragi Ropeway) cable car · 17.7 km away · rises 561 m
- 南海電気鉄道鋼索線 (Nankai Cable Line) funicular · 29.9 km away · rises 284 m
- 西信貴ケーブル funicular · 33.1 km away · rises 347 m
- Gondola near Ikoma gondola · 37.8 km away · rises 34 m
- 近畿日本鉄道生駒鋼索線 (Ikoma Cable Line) funicular · 37.8 km away · rises 470 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.