Plans for a 31km subsea road tunnel are unfrozen again in Japan.
Tunnel is proposed between Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido island in north. There is already a tunnel between these islands. Seikan tunnel. But it is a railway tunnel. If plans become real, the new road tunnel will cost 720 billion yen ($6.97 billion) excluding tunnel portals and connecting roads.
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$7bn plan for new Japan undersea tunnel warms up after years on ice
asia.nikkei.comSAPPORO -- The idea of a tunnel for auto traffic between Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north has gained new momentum after y