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Feels like a tragedy to me any time a rail line is discontinued, especially one so unique. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for recording this historic site for the future!
Wow, never seen this before, unfortunately. If I had known.....well, I just returned from my 19th trip to Japan 2 days ago, and unusual modes of transportation were kind of a recurring theme of my trip: the DMV at Shikoku, the Sumaura carlator, the (long discontinued) Tegarayama monorail in Himeji and also the slope car at Taiyo Park, the Sky Cycle at Washuzan Highland, using several ferries instead of trains just because why not? (even to Kansai Airport!), and while maybe not that unusual, for the first time driving a car in Japan. Had I known about this, I would have certainly made a side trip to Hiroshima just to ride this one...
You're hurting my heart. I've only been able to go a couple of times so they were relatively standard Japan trip, but I love unique modes of travel. Glad you got to experience them before they vanished.
I'm very thankful to have gotten to see this before it was shut down, thank you very much kuga!
That was amazing. So glad we got to experience it!
I won't scream about the height...I will scream about all those stairs.
thank you for the awesome videos!! My family and I love watching these every night and getting to share these adventures! ❤
Wow! Your footage of this route will probably be some of the last available. It's a shame such a novelty system can't make a profit, but it's understandable. Thank you so much for sharing this with us before it shut down!🎉
Thank you! I enjoyed your video, and thank you for making, and posting! Suspended monorails are an interest of mine, but I enjoy your videos, regardless of the subject. I am sorry that this system has now been shutdown (I am writing this on 02 May, 2024), so I am glad that you got a chance to ride it and made this video! (Your videos show EXACTLY what I would be looking for, if I were riding myself. Thank you.)
May 2nd** NOT 02 May
Will they dismantle the whole of the railway - stations, etc; or just leave it all in place?
A real innovative solution. As described, a thing of the past. The buses, using the same street as all the cars, surely could run cheaper, as the street is maintained anyway. And happy residents, seem not (yet) facing traffic congestion. In Zurich area, there are big projects for NEW (standard) tramways, with separate tracks from car lanes. I find this hanging small cabin solution not only cute, but innovaive and probably less prone to winter conditions than any street/tire/wheel combo of buses. Is it known, what happens to the track and the cabins? Best regards from another small country with big train addiction.
Loved that, farewell Sky Train. 🥲
So happy you made this video. We saw the Sky Rail on our way to Hachihonmatsu and wanted to ride it but didn't get the chance. It's a really beautiful part of Japan, I think the people that live there are really lucky.
That is brilliant.
So glad you got there before the closing.
Wow, what a shame it’s closed, even though it’s only a short ride, it’s very intriguing, something perhaps tourists may have liked, I’d love to experience it, Great clip, Thank you for sharing,
Thank you 🙏 Kuga for this nice video about unique railway in Japan 🇯🇵 We are looking 👀 for your next video 🍒🍒🍒
Thank you for this, Sir Kuga. What a wonderful view into a beautiful part of Japan.
Amazing what Japan would do for its residents who live way up the mountain!! Nice Skyrail!! Thanks for the vlog!!
A nice video and a testimony of this marvelous transportation. Thanks Kuga for sharing !
There are so many unique railways in Japan!! When I finally visit someday I am definitely going to try as many as I can lol
Thank you!! That was a fascinating, and very unique experience!!
Thanks for your eye for interest points.
I can see why it's being discontinued. It's a short, very local public transportation system with some pretty extreme infrastructure costs. If it ran from a residential area into a very dense CBD, or if the hill was so steep and long that the skyway bypassed a 40-minute detour by road, _maybe_ it could have been worth it. It's just too big and complex for its purpose. Maybe it can be recreated if someone gets the idea to build a city into the side of a very steep ravine. Or maybe the wall of a crater on the Moon.
What a cool video! Thank you for bringing this to us, Kuga!
Obrigado pelo video incrível minha lindo gostei
Thank you for sharing that was amazing to watch❤
I do have acrophobia, and none of the shots triggered it, so kudos for that!
You should have saved the ticket stub.
Love it. You live the life. Keep up videos 🤙🏽😁
That was amazing! How sad they are removing this useful system. I think the families living near it will miss the calm sound of the Sky Rail.
I love watching your videos its very beautiful over in japan and surounding contries
As if train and cable-car had a baby. :D Cool video, as always.
excellent. thank you!
Gorgeous town
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Ohhh... I was taking notes for my next trip to Japan in march 2025 when the closing info arrived.... so sad! Thanks for share this video!
Are they taking down the track then
Thank you Kuga. It seems a shame that they chose to discontinue this, it seems like an innovative and efficient solution to a problem.
It’s neither innovative or efficient. The only purpose for wonder projects like this is winning some votes. If they had just built a tram system it wouldn’t be closing down.
Well damn, would've been nice to have known about this on my previous trip. Now it's already decomissioned :(
At 1:57 is the most comfortable chair I've seen on a platform! That would have been a fun railway to try. Thanks for showing us
Thank you very much!
When traditional ralilroad engineers are given a blank check to express their pride to build a piece of art. Thanks for showing us. In my past I had so many arguments with engineers that did things just to satisfy their pride. So I never wanted to be one of them. Did they ever consider that disabled people would ever want public transport up the hill?
Is this sky rail only 1.3 km long ? It seems longer than that. But very quirky and interesting, none the less. Thanks for posting.
That's a lot of staircases and places below the second half. Very imposing.
I got to do this with my Aki-Nakano Scouts when I lived in Saijō!
i think this works well in the high density population hillsides of South America. It looks like most of these houses on the hill have cars for transportation. Unusual piece thank you.
I really hope you keep this video of your last ride for memories.
wow interesting experience
It made me cry that such unique and beautiful transport will be out of service.😢
Just beautiful !! I’d much prefer this ride to a bus !!! So sad it’s gone ! 😢
That's seems like a neat ride. We wish we have something like that.
Very interesting!
Thank you!🤝
Thanks Kuga, glad you enjoyed it, but I had a nightmare about heights just last night, so I'm gonna take the bus!!!✌🤟arigato
Thanks!
Thank you!🤝
E o que vão fazer com toda essa estrutura?
Another great video and an amazing unique system. It´s a shame it is discontinued but it is understandable. This is a lower density residential area that will benefit more fro a bus with more stops along the way than a type of rail line with just 3 stops. Seems that most residents had to walk quite a bit to get to a station making it less viable than taking the car or, in some cases, going down on foot.
I'm so sad this is going away - or I guess now has gone away. What a great way to get around!
Really nice. It's a shame it's being discontinued.
I see reason how this Sky Rail become unpopular and need to be close. If I was local I prefer using bus or my own car more than this quirky ride. Or just take a walk to station if I want because 1-2 km walking not bother me that much.
Depends...1-2 km walking while climbing 160 meters would surely bother me. Especially during the hot Japanese summers.... Looking at this thing you wonder how it even got built in the first place. Did anyone actually expect this to ever make money? And apparently it was running a pretty high frequency, with a service every 15 minutes during most of the day, and up to every 5 minutes during rush hours. No chance they'll do anything that comes close to that with a bus....
@@WizardOfOss I agree. And 170 yen per one ride with low ridership and expensive maintenance cost seem like company gonna lose money that much until they can't keep it anymore.
The Japanese population is aging quickly. I just returned from Japan, and surprised to see so many seniors are still working, either out of economic needs or lack of younger people filling the jobs, when they should enjoy a comfortable retirement.
The 3 stations are spaced about where Id need to change underwear! Ha ha!
Thank you for showing us this amazing technology of this skyrail. its really sad that it will be closed but i can imagine that not more than 30 - 50 people will use it ocer a day and this can´t bring the money to run this thing. so electric busses will be a better option.
ahhh i fell lucky to see this last skytrain that have amazing view ,we suppose to have it in sabah malaysia cause they have hill place even more high that japan for suitable people living in there and for tourism ,but its normal in japan have it cause they geography so amazing 70% is high land and mountain
Great video!!!💙💙 It's sad that such an innovative designed form of transportation will be D/C'ed. Glad you got to ride it before usage stopped. So sad!!! ☹
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I was thinking to myself wow that’s going quite fast, then I remembered I have the KZhead settings set to 2x speed 😅(and then he sped up the video anyway ar the end !)
This will be missed when traffic gets worse, athough this system is a bit like using a sledgehammer to drive a nail. Thanks for this historic video!😢
This video gives me a strong sense of déjà vu. Haven't you been here before? From where do I know this line?
It looks like the two upper stations are next to the built up areas, and not really serving those areas given all the stairs. It's a shame the stations weren't more central.
Well, I can in a way understand that they close the line. When they opened the line, busses couldn't climb up more then 10% gradients, as a Diesel engine can only give you a quite small climbing momentum (you need a high momentum with low speeds, Diesel only gains more momentum by driving faster). Electric motored busses can climb up gradients up to 30 degrees. That's because an electric motor will give you 100% momentum right from the start. That's why in for example Tyrolia they had a trolley bus line climbing up the mountains, not because for environmental reasons, but because it was the only way to get enough momentum for the bus. Most likely when they planned pulling up this ropeway train in the style of the Wuppertal trains was more feasable than putting poles at the street side and putting wires on it. The reason is often not even, that it doesn't look beautiful or is expensive. But the wires hinder high vehicles to use the road, like crane trucks or high lorries. And as they were still developing the area, they needed big vehicles to use the road upwards. Nowadays with battery busses you can get electric traction without wires. So now they can change to a bus service, which is much less maintainance than this ropeway. Because to be honest: As this is not a tourist ropeway or monorail in a big populated area, the Sky Rail is a nice service - but hugely overdesigned for such an area.
Will that Sky Rail be torn down and rebuilt?
Great trip. What an unique transportation. Sadly it's going discontinued due to financial problems, hard maintenance, and people prefer take a car. But yeah thankfully there's still another replacement for public transportation
That is a pretty innovative transportation system! Too bad they are ending it :(
Wow! love it, but It is a pity that this service will have to be discontinued.
Curious to know if the rails will be dismantled.
I think the electric bus will not be as fun as the Steepest Roller Coaster. Anyway, take us on a ride on the electric bus later.😇 nice experience ❤
So sad that it has closed.
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do you know what will be taking its place?
Did they ever get another skyway to help where this sky rail went to
Sad that it is no more.
I wish that I had gotten to ride on it. It is too bad that it was put in to an area that is such an urban sprawl.
It's very sad that it will be discontinued 😞 I'm interested in why this wasn't used by the locals, I understand that they can use their own cars, but if it's useful enough, people would use it I guess. Missing connections ?
I suspect that having only 3 total stations played a role in its demise
So sad to see it go 😢
Great video a little bit high and a little bit scary ,so sad its not running anymore ,what about a face shot next time
How sad to see this close.
The real question is did you have fun
For as impractical as most Gadgetbahns are, at least they make for good content.
I’ve watch a few videos about this ropeway, I wonder why it got bulit. In my opinion maybe there was going to be resort up there. Wasn’t 1997 when the asian bubble burst, maybe the person ran out of money. Tried to find information on the internet but it’s only about cable car.
I guess they will dismantle the rail after it’s decommissioned?
Even in Japan, some forms of public can’t survive because of the car.
Why this rail discontinued?
It was mentioned in the video. It generates an annual loss of 100 million JPY.
Had a moment and then realized 2024 is this year so... now it's already closed D:
It's a shame about this unique method but I can understand why it will be torn down. It reminds me of chair lifts.
Such a shame this is closing, I would have paid for a ride, they just need to make a reason for going up, like a funfair or viewing point at the top.
What a pity...will they demolish it?
I feel sorry for the engineers who designed and built that marvel and see now their work scrapped 😢
Is kind of sad people switched to cars when they had this