Shōnan Monorail (湘南モノレール) 湘南モノレール
It hangs below the beam, and its 1970 tunnel was the first of its kind in the world.
A suspended monorail of the SAFEGE system, built by Mitsubishi under a French licence, opened in March 1970 between Ōfuna and Nishi-Kamakura and completed to Shōnan-Enoshima in July 1971. It is one of only two SAFEGE lines in Japan, together with the one in Chiba: all the other Japanese monorails are straddle-type, meaning the car sits on top of the beam. Building it meant digging the Kamakurayama tunnel, 451 metres, the first tunnel in the world built for a suspended monorail; the second, the Kataseyama tunnel, is 205 metres long and has only five to ten metres of cover above it. In 2018 the company entered into the first twinning between a Japanese and a German monorail operator, with the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
Kanagawa
Kita-Kamakura, Ofuna
