Dai Shimizu tunnel

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The Dai-Shimizu-Tunnel ( Japanese 大 清水 ト ン ネ ル Dai-Shimizu-tonneru ) is a Japanese railway tunnel that was built for the Shinkansen express traffic . With a length of 22,221 m, the tube was the longest railway tunnel in the world when it was completed in 1979. The tunnel is part of the Jōetsu Shinkansen between Tokyo and Niigata and crosses under the Japanese Alps .

With the opening of the 53.9 km long Seikan Tunnel in May 1988, the tubes became the world's second longest tunnel. In the list of the longest tunnels in the world , it now ranks seventh (as of March 2009).

The name Dai-Shimizu-Tunnel - literally "large Shimizu tunnel" - is related to the 9,702 m long Shimizu tunnel ( 清水 ト ン ネ ル Shimizu-tonneru ) opened in 1931 and the 13,490 m long Shin-Shimizu, opened in 1967 -Tunnel ( 新 清水 ト ン ネ ル Shin-Shimizu-tonneru , German "new Shimizu tunnel").

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  1. ↑ We're tackling it . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1983, pp. 120, 122 ( online ).

Coordinates: 36 ° 49 '46.4 "  N , 138 ° 55' 0.2"  E