Kasamatsu (Kyoto)

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Kasamatsu Station is the upper terminus of the Amanohashidate Cable Railway (Amanohashidate Kōsaku Tetsudō), operated by Tango Kairiku Kōtsū — abbreviated Tankai — in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture. The 0.4 km funicular climbs 130 m at a maximum 461‰ gradient, connecting Fuchū Station at the foot with Kasamatsu Park at the summit, which commands a scenic view of the Amanohashidate sandbar. The line was opened on 13 August 1927 by Nariai Electric Railway, closed on 11 February 1944 as a wartime non-essential line, and reopened on 12 August 1951 by Tango Kairiku Kōtsū. The current cars were built by Alna Kōki in 1975 at 7.95 m long — among the shortest cable-car passenger cars in Japan. The winding mechanism was updated in August 2025 with equipment transferred from the discontinued Nose Electric Railway Myōken no Mori Cable Line.

The funicular's lower Fuchū Station has an interior gradient of 78‰ — gentler than the 80‰ steepest section of the adhesion-worked Hakone Tozan Line — so its platforms are smooth slopes rather than stepped.