Mount Mitake

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Mitake-san Station is the upper terminus of the 1.107 km Mitake Tozan Railway cable car line, located at 831.0 m on Mount Mitake in Ōme, Tokyo. The line opened on 31 December 1934 between Takimoto and Mitake-san (climbing 423.6 m at up to a 25° gradient), was suspended in 1944 as a wartime non-essential line, reopened on 29 June 1951, came under the Keiō Group on 29 May 1972, and was regauged from 1,067 mm to 1,049 mm on 6 July 1991. The station houses the cable car's operator's cab and its operating equipment; immediately adjoining is the Mitake-daira lower lift station, which gives onward access to Daitenbōdai (881 m) via the 98 m lift line.

Through fiscal 1989 the station's name was written with the older form of the character take (岳→嶽), as Mitake-san (御嶽山駅), in the Mintetsu Yōran rail-industry yearbook.