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Vehicles of Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

Local Train of Toyama

Toyama Chiho Tetsudo Company Ltd.
Dentetsu Toyama to Tateyama 34.0Km (60min)
Unazuki Onsen to Tateyama 67.7km (90min)
It is the train which crosses the Toyama plain and runs to the foot of the Tateyama mountain chains. It becomes the vehicle of the beginning from the Toyama side of Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The peaceful country scenery of outside windows softens the heart.


Tateyama Cable Car

Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Company Ltd.
Tateyama station to Bijodaira 1.3Km (7min)
About 500m of altitude differences is reached at a stretch between the Tateyama station and a Bijodaira station. Two vehicles move the hill of 24 mean slopes.


Tateyama Highland Bus

Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Company Ltd.
Bijodaira to Murodo 23Km(50min)
It can be throughly enjoyed the change of Nature on from a subalpine zone (altitude of 1000m) to Highland (altitude of 2500m). There are "Buna" wood, the brilliant Tateyama cedar which passed several hundred years or more, the observatory for seeing Shomyo Fall (called Takimidai), a vast Midagahara plateau, etc.


Tateyama Tunnel Trolley Bus

Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Company Ltd.
Murodo to Daikanbo 3.7Km (10min)
It is the trolley bus, and it runs the tunnel of the highest place in Japan which falls out directly under "Oyama" (the highest mountain of Tateyama), and it is considered at the environment. The scene is changed completely from a grand plateau to the view of the Kurobe canyon.


Tateyama Ropeway

Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Company Ltd.
Daikanbo to Kurobedaira1.7Km (7min)
It is "one span ropeway" which does not have any supports in the middle of 1710m of extension, and fluctuates in 500m of height differences. It is called "the observatory to move" and the panorama of 360 degrees is the highlight.


Kurobe Cable Car

Tateyama Kurobe Kanko Company Ltd.
Kurobedaira to Kurobeko 0.8Km (5min)
In Japan, it is the only cable car which passes underground from begining to end. The reason why is not being influenced by heavy snow of winter, and in order to keep the natural scene of Tateyama.


Kanden Tunnel Trolley Bus

Kansai Electric Power Company Ltd.
Kurobe dam to Ogisawa 6.1Km (16min)
It runs through the tunnel which pierces through right under Mt. Akazawadake of Ushiro Tateyama mountain chain. It began to have run since 1964, and it operates by trolley bus.


Local Bus

Kawanakajima Bus Company Ltd.
Kita Alpus Kotu Company Ltd.
Matsumoto Denki Tetsudo Company Ltd.
Ogisawa to Shinano-Omachi(Omachi Alpine Line) 18Km (40min)
By three copmpanies, it operates jointly.


 
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