Oyama Cable Car

– Shining in the forest of Oyama –
The design concept of the new train is “Integration of tradition and modernity, Harmony with the scene of Hakone”. Large windows on both side of a car and floor-to-ceiling windows in the observation zones are designed to give panoramic views of Hakone’s magnificent nature. Passengers in the cross seats in the center of the cars can admire the passing scenery and enjoy refreshing mountain breezes from the openable window. The smart-looking exterior has the strength and familiarity typical of a mountain railway, and the cars are painted Vermillion Hakone, a color specially developed to complement Hakone’s four seasons.

Oyama Cable Car
– in the forest of Oyama –

Type
Cable Car

Location
Kanagawa, Japan

Client
Oyama Kanko Dentetsu Co.,Ltd.

Status
2013-14 Design
2014-15 Manufacture
2015 October, Commercial operation started

Length
1-car, 11.30m

Body Structure
Steel

Design
Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network

Production Design and manufacture
Odakyu Engineering Co.,Ltd.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Osaka Sharyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Award
*2016 GOOD DESIGN AWARD

Reference
*Shinkenchiku: 2015 12, Shinkenchiku-sha, Japan

Photograph
Hiroki Mikami: No.05, 06, 08, 09

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