Seikan Tunnel Museum

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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 Taiken-kōdō Station at 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, which is staffed by two people, one of whom operates the cable car while the other works the ventilation door. The funicular's car "Seikan 1" / Mogura-gō has a 40-passenger capacity. Current fares (as of the revision 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.

On the JR Hokkaido "Tappi-Kaitei Station tour" that once operated, visitors could pass between Tappi-Kaitei Station, inside the Seikan Tunnel, and Taiken-kōdō Station; passengers who instead came down from the museum on the funicular were not admitted to Tappi-Kaitei Station. The tour ended on 10 November 2013 and the station was abolished on 14 March 2014, but the funicular and the Taiken-kōdō walk-through have continued ever since.