Hashikurasan cable car

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Hashikurasan cable car
Valley station
Mountain station

The Hashikurasan Cable Car ( Japanese 箸 蔵 山 ロ ー プ ウ ェ イ , Hashikurasan Rōpuwei , English Hashikurasan Ropeway ) is a cable car on the Japanese island of Shikoku . In the prefecture of Tokushima it connects the city of Miyoshi belonging place Ikeda with Mount Hashikura. It is operated by the Hashikurasan Rōpuwei Kabushiki-gaisha company , a subsidiary of Shikoku Cable .

description

The main purpose of the aerial ropeway is to provide quick and convenient access to Hashikura-dera , a major Buddhist temple near the top of Mount Hashikura. The Tozan-guchi valley station ( 登山 口 ) is located on the northern outskirts of Ikeda, about five minutes' walk from Hashikura station on the Dosan line . It is a 15-minute bus ride from Awa-Ikeda train station. The Chōjō mountain station ( 頂上 ) is located in the southwest corner of the extensive temple complex.

The cable car is a Funitel based on the “Double Loop Monocable” (DLC) system. It was made by the Swiss manufacturer CWA, a company of the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group . With a rope length of 948 m, it overcomes a height difference of 342 m. The two cabins each hold 32 people and move at a speed of 5 m / s (18 km / h). A ride takes about four minutes. In the months of April to November it is in operation from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., in winter from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. It usually runs every 15 minutes.

history

To facilitate access to the Hashikura-dera temple, the Hashikura Tozan Tetsudō ( 箸 蔵 Tempel 鉄 道 ) was created. This funicular opened on June 18, 1930, but operations had to be stopped on February 11, 1944. The Ministry of Transport had classified the railway as "not urgent" in view of the unfavorable course of the Second World War . It was dismantled and the resulting material made available to the war economy .

A predecessor company of Shikoku Cable opened a chairlift in 1971 on the spot where the funicular once stood . They also put a cable car into operation, which connected the mountain station of the chairlift with the temple. From 1977 there was another cable car next to the chairlift. In 1999, both aerial ropeways were completely renewed and replaced by Asia's first Funitel, which eliminated the need to change trains.

Web links

Commons : Hashikurasan Cable Car  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Hashikura-ji (visitor information). (PDF, 704 kB) Hashikurasan Ropeway, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Company profile . Hashikurasan Ropeway, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Timetable and tariffs. Hashikurasan Ropeway, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 土 讃 線 ・ 箸 蔵 駅 と 箸 蔵 登山 鉄 道. fc2blog, accessed December 28, 2018 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ′ 41 ″  N , 133 ° 50 ′ 31 ″  E