Experience Tunnel

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Taiken-kōdō Station is the underground 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, connecting Seikan Tunnel Museum Station on the surface with Taiken-kōdō Station at the Seikan Tunnel's Tappi tei-ten (the former Tappi-Kaitei undersea station). The museum opened on 11 March 1988 and the tunnel was put into service on 13 March 1988, while the funicular itself opened on 9 July 1988; it had been built originally to move workers and materials during tunnel construction. Taiken-kōdō Station has one staff member on duty, the 778 m total run is single track with no passing loop (a small worker-haulage branch exists near Taiken-kōdō), and the train is the single-car "Seikan 1" / Mogura-gō with a 40-passenger capacity.

Taiken-kōdō Station is effectively an attraction inside the Seikan Tunnel Museum rather than a transport hub, but the line is operated under the Railway Business Act, which requires it to set fares and a timetable and to publish a safety report; its operating figures can also be traced through the statistics compiled by the Railway Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.