History
Kurobedaira Station is a cable-car and ropeway station of Tateyama Kurobe Kankō, sitting at 1,828 metres above sea level in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture. Construction began on 2 November 1965, and the station opened on 20 July 1969 as Kurobe-Gozen Station on the Kurobe Cable Car. The Tateyama Ropeway connection followed on 25 July 1970, when the station also took its present name. Improvement works finished on 25 April 1978 and a full rebuild of the station building on 24 April 1992. Designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka in reinforced concrete over three floors and a basement, it forms part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. Foldable platform doors were installed in 2018, a first for any cable-car station in Japan.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until trolleybus operation through the Tateyama Tunnel was reclassified in 2024, Kurobedaira was Japan's highest railway station only by technicality; with the trolleybus line gone it has now become the highest cable-car or rail-law-registered station in the country.