History
Afuri-jinja Station is the upper terminus of the Ōyama Cable Line (大山鋼索線), a 0.76 km funicular operated by Ōyama Kankō Dentetsu in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture — an Odakyū Group company since 12 February 1957. The line was opened on 11 July 1965, after Ōyama Kankō (founded on 21 July 1950 and renamed Ōyama Kankō Dentetsu in August 1953) developed the route to take visitors up Mount Ōyama in the Tanzawa range. The line runs at 20-minute intervals with a 6-minute journey. The upper terminus is named after Afuri Shrine, an ancient mountain shrine that the cable car was built specifically to serve.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Afuri-jinja Station is named after Ōyama Afuri Shrine, an ancient mountain shrine on Mount Ōyama — and the cable line itself was built specifically to give pilgrims and tourists easier access to the shrine, which was previously reached only by a steep mountain trail.