History
Mitake-san Station is the upper terminus of the 1.107 km Mitake Tozan Railway Cable-car Line, located at 831.0 m on Mitake Mountain 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 braking equipment; immediately adjoining is the Mitake-daira lower lift station, which gives onward access to Daiten-bōdai (881 m) via the 98 m lift line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Through fiscal 1989 the station's name was written with the older form of 'gake' (岳→嶽), as Mitake-san (御嶽山駅), in the official 'Mintetsu Yōran' rail-industry yearbook.