Underwater Tokyo Bay Aqua Line Tunnel

And the tokyo bay aqualine is also a pleasant way to cross one of the world s.

Underwater tokyo bay aqua line tunnel. The tokyo wan aqua line expressway consists of two 10km long tunnels aqua tunnel under kawasaki waters and a 5 km long bridge aqua bridge over chiba waters with two artificial island in between. About the tokyo wan aqua line expressway. Der tunnel selbst ist 9 5 km lang gefolgt von einer 4 4 km langen brücke. Japan s first marine rest area umihotaru is an artificial island constructed to shift the expressway from the tunnels to the bridge.

Die tōkyō wan aqua line japanisch 東京湾アクアラインtōkyō wan akuarain ist eine kombination von brücke und tunnel über die bucht von tokio in japan und mit knapp 10 km der längste unterseetunnel der welt für autoverkehr. The aqua line connects cities of kawasaki and kimitsu through a under sea tunnel over sea bridge network of 15 km on the tokyo bay. With an overall length of 23 7 km it includes a 4 4 km bridge and 9 6 km tunnel underneath the bay the fourth longest underwater tunnel in the world. It connects the city of kawasaki in kanagawa prefecture with the city of kisarazu in chiba prefecture and forms part of national route 409.

The aqualine consists of a 9 5 km shield tunnel the tokyo bay tunnel and a 4 4 km bridge from an artificial island to the kisarazu landing. Stunning architecture will leave you mesmerized modern era of aesthetic design particulary impressive. The tunnel diameter is the world s largest for an underwater shield tunnel used for motor vehicle traffic. The tokyo bay aqua line also known as the trans tokyo bay expressway is an expressway that is mainly made up of a bridge tunnel combination across tokyo bay in japan.

As an aggregation of state of the art technologies and know how the tokyo wan aqua line expressway was referred to as the apollo project of civil engineering crossing through the middle of tokyo bay it is made up of approximately 10km of tunnel aqua tunnel and 5km of bridge aqua bridge. The cross section diameter to the outside of the segment lining is 13 9 m and the inner diameter of 11 9 m provides for two lanes of traffic in both directions. The tunnel is 10 km long which comes up in the middle of the bay to a large shopping complex and view point in the middle of the bay. There have many shop for tourist consumption too.