Station

Seikan Tunnel Museum

青函トンネル記念館

Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Seikan Tunnel Museum Station is the surface terminus of the Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line, a 914 mm-gauge funicular run by the Seikan Tunnel Museum in Sotogahama, Higashi-Tsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture; the line connects this station on the surface with Tairyō-kōdō Station deep inside the Seikan Tunnel's Tappi-tei-ten. The Seikan Tunnel Memorial Hall opened on 11 March 1988 at the Michi-no-Eki Minmaya, and the tunnel itself was put into service two days later on 13 March 1988. The hauling-winch is housed in a building across the road from the station and is operated by two staff (one for the cable car, one for the windage gate). The funicular's car "Seikan 1" / Mogura-gō has a 40-passenger capacity. Current fares (as of 23 April 2021) are 600 yen one-way and 1,200 yen round-trip (half-price for children), and one-way tickets are normally not sold; combination tickets with the Memorial Hall exhibit are available.

Notes

During the JR Hokkaido "Tappi-Kaitei Eki kengaku" tour days (until 2013), visitors could ride down to Tairyō-kōdō and walk through to the now-abolished Tappi-Kaitei Station inside the Seikan Tunnel — but going the other way, from the museum terminus down via the funicular, did not allow entry into Tappi-Kaitei. The Tappi-Kaitei tour ended on 10 November 2013 and the station was abolished on 14 March 2014; the funicular itself and the kōdō walk-through have continued ever since.

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Last updated: 2026-05-25