The Seikan tunnel connects the Honshu and the Hokkaido islands of Japan ... The tunnel will also facilitated the passing of the Shinkansen bullet train from 2016. The current electric system of the ...

If you were on that train, some part of the brain would register ... was keeping it from being crushed. In 1986, when the Seikan Tunnel was opened but trains had not yet started carrying ...

It burrows deeper -- 1.4 miles -- than any other rail tunnel. It overtakes Japan's Seikan tunnel, which measure about 33 miles, as the longest rail tunnel in the world. "It is just part of the ...

An 81-year-old man who was part of the 24-year construction of the Seikan Tunnel connecting Shiriuchi ... on the Shiriuchi side to watch the first train pass through. Kadoya was born in and ...

Japan boasts the world's longest underwater tunnel, which stretches for more than miles under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, but it's now barely being used. Work on the Seikan Tunnel was ...

The new tunnel through the Alps is 35.5 miles long, exceeding by 2 miles the current record-holder, Japan’s Seikan Tunnel ... are installed along the train route. The Swiss, known for ...

Japan’s Seikan Tunnel came at a stunning price too ... but when five ferries sank in 1954, an idea for a train tunnel was floated - especially as planned economic growth would have overwhelmed ...

People wait inside a train to cross the Bosporus after ... in the construction and financing of the railway tunnel project. Japan’s Seikan tunnel linking the Japanese islands of Honshu and ...

despite being the longest train tunnel globally, isn't the only option for speedy travel. Alternatives include the Seikan Tunnel in Japan's Tsugaru Strait, which held the world record until the ...

Upon its grand opening, the Gotthard Base Tunnel snatched the title of the longest traffic tunnel from Japan's Seikan Tunnel ... bustling tunnel in 2023 when a train derailed causing severe ...