History
Miyawaki Station is the lower terminus of the 1.634 km Tsukuba-kankō Tetsudō Tsukubasan Cable-car Line, located at 305 m alongside the worship-hall side of Tsukuba-san-jinja shrine in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. The cable car — Kantō's second-oldest after Hakone-Tozan — 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. The line carries 'PASMO' and all interoperable transit IC cards at Miyawaki for ticket exchange (the cards are treated as e-money so PiTaPa is not accepted).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
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.