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 |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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Nagasaki Tunnel - Nagasaki Main Line | | | | |
Masaki Tunnel - Sanriku Railway | | | | |
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Akakura Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line | | | | |
Nabetateyama Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line | | | | |
Yakushitoge Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line | | | | |
Kirigatake Tunnel - Hokuhoku Line | | | | |
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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 |