List of aerial lifts in Japan

The list of aerial lifts in Japan lists aerial lifts in the nation.

In Japan, aerial lift, or "ropeway" (索道 sakudō), includes means of transport such as aerial tramway, funitel, gondola lift, funifor, as well as chairlift. All of them are legally considered as a sort of railway. Chairlift is officially called "special ropeway" (特殊索道 tokushu sakudō), while colloquially called "lift" (リフト rifuto). Other aerial lifts are officially called "normal ropeway" (普通索道 futsū sakudō), or colloquially "ropeway" (ロープウェイ or ロープウェー rōpuwei or rōpuwē). Technical names exist for each "normal ropeway", such as "double single-cabled automatic loop normal ropeway" (複式単線自動循環式普通索道 fukushiki tansen jidō junkan-shiki futsū sakudō) for funitel gondola lifts, but those names are hardly used outside authorities; most people don't distinguish them. Number of Japanese "normal ropeways" listed here are as follows.

Systems Full year
operational
Seasonal Total
Gondola lifts 62 32 94
Aerial tramways 68 4 72
Funitel gondola lifts 3 0 3
Funitel aerial tramways 1 0 1
Total 134 36 170

It is also notable that the word "cable car" (ケーブルカー kēburukā) does not refer to aerial lifts in Japan, but to cable railways, such as cable cars proper or funiculars. (However, Japan currently does not have any cable cars proper, but funiculars.)

This article only lists "normal ropeways"; in other words, aerial lifts excluding chairlifts. Names might be tentative.

Italicized name: Aerial lifts that operate seasonal, mostly in ski resorts.
T: Aerial tramways. (Those without T are gondola lifts.)
F: Funitels.

 Hokkaidō

Tōhoku region

Zaō Ropeway funitel

 Aomori Prefecture

 Iwate Prefecture

 Akita Prefecture

 Miyagi Prefecture

 Yamagata Prefecture

 Fukushima Prefecture

Kantō region

Hakone Ropeway is the second funitel in Japan.

 Gunma Prefecture

 Tochigi Prefecture

 Ibaraki Prefecture

 Chiba Prefecture

 Saitama Prefecture

 Kanagawa Prefecture

Chūbu region

 Shizuoka Prefecture

 Yamanashi Prefecture

 Nagano Prefecture

 Niigata Prefecture

 Ishikawa Prefecture

 Toyama Prefecture

 Gifu Prefecture

 Mie Prefecture

Kansai region

Yoshino Ropeway is the oldest surviving aerial lift in Japan, operated from 1929.
Shin-Kōbe Ropeway and the skyscrapers of Kōbe.

 Shiga Prefecture

 Nara Prefecture

 Kyoto Prefecture

 Osaka Prefecture

 Hyōgo Prefecture

Chūgoku region

Miyajima Ropeway Momijidani Line, Miyajima, Hiroshima.

 Hiroshima Prefecture

 Yamaguchi Prefecture

 Shimane Prefecture

Shikoku region

Bizan Ropeway, Tokushima.

 Kagawa Prefecture

 Tokushima Prefecture

 Ehime Prefecture

Kyūshū region

 Ōita Prefecture

 Nagasaki Prefecture

 Kumamoto Prefecture

See also

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