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List Of Tunnels In Japan
This list of tunnels in Japan includes any road, rail or waterway tunnel in Japan. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! Tunnel !! Opening !! Start location !! End location !! Note , - , Seikan Tunnel - Kaikyō Line , , 13 March 1988 , , Honshu , , Hokkaido , , the second longest railway tunnel in the world (~53.85 km) , - , Tsugaru Tunnel - Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line , , , , Sotogahama-cho in Aomori , , Imabetsu-cho in Aomori , , ~5.88 km , - , , , , , , , , , , - , Ichinoseki Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen , , 1982 , , Ichinoseki Station , , , , 9.730 km , - , Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen , , 2002 , , Morioka, Iwate , , Hachinohe, Aomori is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 221,459, and a population density of 725 persons per km2 in 96,092 households, making it Aomori Prefecture's second largest city by population. The city h ... , , , - , Fukushima Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen , , , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seikan Tunnel Entrance - Dual-gauge Track
The Seikan Tunnel ( ja, 青函トンネル, or , ), is a dual gauge, dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a portion under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu from the northern island of Hokkaido. The track level is about below the seabed and below sea level. The tunnel is part of the standard-gauge Hokkaido Shinkansen and the narrow-gauge Kaikyō Line of the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido)'s Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line. The name ''Seikan'' comes from combining the ''Kanji#On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading), on'yomi'' readings of the first characters of , the nearest major city on the Honshu side of the strait, and , the nearest major city on the Hokkaido side. The Seikan Tunnel is the world's List of longest tunnels, longest undersea tunnel by overall length (the Channel Tunnel, while shorter, has a longer undersea segment). It is also the second-deepest transport tunnel below the sea level after the Ryfy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
