List of tunnels in Japan

Seikan undersea tunnel entrance on Honshu side.
The first undersea Kanmon Railway Tunnel between Honshu and Kyushu islands built in 1936 - 1942.

This list of tunnels in Japan includes any road, rail or waterway tunnel in Japan.

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
Fukushima Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen
Nasu Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen 1982 7.030 km
Sannohe Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen 2002 Ninohe Station Hachinohe Station 8.250 km
Zaō Tunnel - Tōhoku Shinkansen
Daishimizu Tunnel - Jōetsu Shinkansen 1982 Gunma Prefecture Niigata Prefecture
Shimizu Tunnel - Jōetsu Line Gunma Prefecture Niigata Prefecture
Shin-Shimizu Tunnel - Jōetsu Line
Tsukiyono Tunnel - Jōetsu Line 7.295 km
Haruna Tunnel - Jōetsu Shinkansen
Nakayama Tunnel - Jōetsu Shinkansen
Shiozawa Tunnel - Jōetsu Shinkansen
Uonuma Tunnel - Jōetsu Shinkansen
Bentenyama Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1963 1.316 km
Horikoshi Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1963 1.415 km
Izumigoshi Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1963 3.193 km
Kanbara Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1968 4.934 km
Makinohara Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1968 2.917 km
Nangosan Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1961 5.170 km
Tanna Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1934 Tokyo Kobe
Shin-Tanna Tunnel (parallel to old Tanna Tunnel) - Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Nihonzaka Tunnel (rail) - Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Otowayama Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 5.045 km
Yui Tunnel - Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1968 3.993 km
Haneda Tunnel - Tōkaidō Freight Line 1973 6.472 km
Aioi Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen 3.988 km
Aki Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen
Fukuoka Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen 1975 8.488 km
Hosaka Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen 1975 7.588 km
Kitakyushu Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen 1975 11.747 km
Kobe Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen 1972 Shin-Kobe Station Nishi-Akashi Station 7.970km
Kanmon Tunnel - Sanyō Main Line 1942 Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka
Shin-Kanmon Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen
Rokko Tunnel - Sanyō Shinkansen
Shin-Noborikawa Tunnel - Sekishō Line
Shin-Karikachi Tunnel - Nemuro Main Line
Senzan Tunnel - Senzan Line
Sengan Tunnel for #46 Road & JR Sengan Tunnel for Akita Shinkansen (Tazawako Line)
Rokujurigoe Tunnel - Tadami Line
Sasago Tunnel - Chūō Expressway 1977 Ōtsuki, Yamanashi Kōshū, Yamanashi
Enrei Tunnel - Chūō Main Line 1983 Okaya, Nagano Shiojiri, Nagano ~5.994 km
Ohara Tunnel - Iida Line
Akima Tunnel - Hokuriku Shinkansen 1997 Takasaki Karuizawa 8.295 km
Gorigamine Tunnel - Hokuriku Shinkansen 1997 Ueda Chikuma 15.175 km
Hokuriku Tunnel - Hokuriku Line
Kubiki Tunnel - Hokuriku Line
Nagasaki Tunnel - Nagasaki Main Line
Masaki Tunnel - Sanriku Railway
Akakura Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line
Nabetateyama Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line
Yakushitoge Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line
Kirigatake Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line
Karisaka Tunnel 1998 Chichibu, Saitama Yamanashi, Yamanashi
Shin-Kobe Tunnel (expressway) 2012 Kobe city Minoya Junction 8.5 km length
Yumesaki Tunnel 2009 Sakishima island Yumeshima island, Osaka 2.138 km length
Kan-Etsu Tunnel - Kan-Etsu Expressway 1991 Minakami, Gunma Yuzawa, Niigata the longest road tunnel in Japan (~11 km)
Hida Tunnel - Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway 2008 Hida city, Gifu Shirakawa village, Gifu the second-longest road tunnel in Japan (~10.7 km)
Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line bridge-tunnel 18 December 1997 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Kisarazu, Chiba the third-longest road tunnel in Japan
Enasan Tunnel - Chūō Expressway 1985 Nagano Nakatsugawa City, Gifu the fourth-longest road tunnel in Japan (~8.6 km)
Ikuta Tunnel - Musashino Line 1976 Ikuta Station 10.359 km

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