Miyawaki

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Miyawaki Station is the lower terminus of the 1.634 km Tsukubasan Cable Car Line, operated by Tsukuba Kankō Tetsudō, and stands at 305 m beside the worship hall of Tsukubasan-jinja shrine in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. The cable car — Kantō's second-oldest after the Hakone Tozan cable car — opened on 12 October 1925 from Miyawaki up to Tsukuba-Sanchō, was abolished as a wartime non-essential line on 11 February 1944, and reopened on 3 November 1954. At Miyawaki, nine of the nationally interoperable transit IC cards, PASMO among them, can be exchanged for tickets; because they are handled as e-money, PiTaPa is not accepted.

Between Miyawaki and Tsukuba-Sanchō the track curves through roughly 90 degrees — one of the line's most distinctive features. The route passes through Nagamine Tunnel (118 m), which was bored through the difficult gabbro rock of Mount Tsukuba and earned the line its 2015 designation as a Selected Civil Engineering Heritage.