Motate Yama

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Motateyama Station opened in 1949 as Motateyama Yūenchi Station, serving a campground that had been built on the former site of the Ōka rocket-plane launch pad. The campground later closed. The station was renamed Motateyama on 15 January 1974. It is the upper intermediate stop on the funicular, located 1.7 km from the lower terminus at Cable Sakamoto. The single wooden side platform sits on a 333‰ slope, equipped only with non-slip cross timbers, a small shed and a two-to-three-person bench; cars stop only when notified in advance or summoned by the intercom at the station.

A short ten-minute mountain path from the station leads to the grave of the Heian-period poet Ki no Tsurayuki, beside which stands a stone monument erected in 1912 in his memory.