History
Motateyama Station opened in 1949 as Motateyama Yūenchi Station (裳立山遊園地駅), serving a campground that had been built on the former site of the Ōka rocket-plane launch pad. The campground later closed. The station was renamed Motateyama on 15 January 1974, when the parent Sakamoto Cable underwent a wider rebranding. It is the upper intermediate stop on the funicular, located 1.7 km from the lower terminus at Cable Sakamoto. The single wooden side platform sits on a 333‰ slope, equipped only with non-slip cross timbers, a small shed and a two-to-three-person bench; cars stop only when notified or summoned by intercom.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A short ten-minute mountain path from the station leads to the grave of the Heian-period poet Ki no Tsurayuki, marked by a 1912 stone memorial column erected to commemorate him.