Hakone Komagatake Cable Car
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The Hakone Komagatake Cable Car ( Japanese 箱根 駒 ヶ 岳 ロ ー プ ウ ェ ー , Hakone Komagatake Rōpuwēi ; English Hakone Komagatake Ropeway ) is a cable car in Japan . It is located in the area of the city Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture . It is operated by the Prince Hotels tourism company , which is part of the Seibu Group .
description
The 1356 m high Hakone Komagatake ( 箱根 駒 ヶ 岳 ) is one of the main cones of the Hakone volcanic massif and rises east of Lake Ashi , the crater lake in the western part of the caldera . Hakone-en ( 箱根 園 , also called Hakone Garden ), the valley station of the aerial cableway, is located on the east bank in the middle of the holiday home and hotel area of the same name at an altitude of 736 m above sea level.There are connections to several bus lines and to the excursion boats that operate on the lake . The cableway leads to the mountain station Komagatake-Chojo ( 駒ヶ岳頂上 ) to 1327 m TP , far from the peak with the Hakone Mototsumiya shrine.
The system is an aerial tramway with two suspension and traction ropes in both directions. Over a length of 1783 m, it overcomes a height difference of 591 m. The two cabins each offer space for 101 people and move at a speed of 5 m / s. The greatest distance between two supports is 730 m, the greatest height above the ground is 43 m. The cable car is usually in operation between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at 20-minute intervals, the journey time is seven minutes.
history
The cable car was opened on April 27, 1963 by the Izuhakone Tetsudō railway company . It was built jointly by the cable car construction companies Nippon Cable and Anzen Sakudo . In 1986 the system was modernized and in July 1990 automatic operation was introduced. From 2005 the Izuhakone Tetsudō and with it the cable car belonged to the Seibu Group . The cable car was transferred to Prince Hotels , which belong to the same group , on February 1, 2016 .
From 1957 to 2005, the Izuhakone Tetsudō also operated the Hakone-Komagatake funicular railway , which opened up the mountain from the east.
Web links
- Hakone Komagatake Cable Car website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 知 れ ば 旅 が も っ と 楽 し く な る マ ニ ア ッ ク な 情報. Prince Hotels, accessed November 12, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ 運行 時間 と 運 賃 の ご 案 内. Prince Hotels, accessed November 12, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ 箱根 ・ 駒 ヶ 岳 ロ ー プ ウ ェ ー を プ リ ン ス ホ テ ル （箱根 園） に 運 営 移行. odawara-hakone.keizai.biz, January 29, 2016, accessed November 12, 2018 (Japanese).
Coordinates: 35 ° 13 '10 " N , 139 ° 1' 6.2" E