Kurama-dera Cable

The line is officially called Mount Kurama Cable Railway (鞍馬山鋼索鉄道, Kurama-yama Kōsaku Tetsudō).

The temple, however, recommends its visitors not to use the funicular, but to walk on foot if possible to feel stronger impressions.

As a legally recognized Japanese railway line, this is the only one operated by a religious institution (宗教法人, Shūkyō Hōjin), as well as the only one that is nominally free of charge.

The car in use as at March 2006 was nicknamed Ushiwaka-gō III, after Minamoto no Yoshitsune (called Ushiwakamaru in his childhood), who was put and got training in the temple.

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