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.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
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.