Mountain route
Sakamoto Cable
Cable Sakamoto → Cable Enryakuji · Japan
Sakamoto Cable in pictures
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- Distance
- 2.03 km
- Fastest time
- 11 min
- Average speed
- 11 km/h
- Operator
- Hieizan Railway
- Train
- European-styled cars ’En’ and ’Fuku’ (1993)
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1927
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japan’s longest funicular — 2,025 m up Mount Hiei to UNESCO-listed Enryaku-ji, with Lake Biwa views — running since 1927.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8138136 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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