The Myoken Cable (妙見ケーブル, Myōken Kēburu), officially the Cable Line (鋼索線, Kōsaku-sen), is Japanese funicular line that climbs Mount Myōken (妙見山) in Kawanishi, Hyōgo. It is operated by Nose Electric Railway.
Completed in 1925, the cable car consisted of a lower line between Takiya and Chukan and an upper line between Chukan and Mt Myoken, and carried approximately 370,000 passengers a year, but during the war the entire line was removed as unnecessary and non-essential. Incidentally, the equipment of the upper line that was removed at that time was converted to the Tokoku Touge Cable Car (Shizuoka Prefecture), which opened after the war in 1956, and is still in use today as it was when it was built in 1925.
After the war, as part of the Myoken Line's measures to attract passengers, the lower line was restored by Nose Electric Railway and became the current Myokenomori Cable (the upper line was replaced by the Myokenomori Lift). However, due to the existence of buses running directly from Hankyu Ikeda Station to the top of the mountain and the decline in the number of visitors to the Nose Myokendo itself, the number of passengers on the Myokenomori Cable and Lift was only about 1/2 - 1/3 of the pre-war level.
On 23 June 2023, the company announced the termination of Myokenomi-no-Mori related businesses, including the Myokenomi-no-Mori lift and barbecue facilities, on the grounds that the facilities themselves were ageing and would require large-scale renewal investment, and that it would be difficult to continue operations in the future under the continuing severe business environment. A notification of discontinuation of the steel railway business was submitted with a scheduled discontinuation date of 24 June 2024. From the outset, Nose Dentetsu had indicated that it would bring forward the closure date if the results of opinion hearings showed that there was no risk of disturbing public convenience, and Nose Dentetsu had expressed a desire to close the line around the winter holiday period in December 2023. Subsequently, on 12 September 2023, the Kinki Transport Bureau notified Nose Electric Railway that it was recognised that there was no risk of disturbing public convenience, and on 22 September, Nose Electric Railway submitted a notification to move the discontinuation date to 4 December 2023 (last operating day: 3 December 2023).
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