[Abandoned railway track]Walk through the tunnel, which opened in 1877

[Abandoned railway track]Walk through the tunnel, which opened in 1877

In 1966, a larger tunnel was built for electrification. The tunnel, which opened in 1887, is a civil engineering heritage site.

0:00 Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line. Originally the Shinetsu Main Line of the national railway, it became JR East and was abandoned with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, and now operates as the third sector.

0:45 Furuma Station

1:05 Furuma Station now and then

1:19 The station is unmanned

1:50 5 minutes walk

2:00 The road outside the parking lot is already the remains of the old railway line.

2:35 The past and present of this area. A tunnel will be dug beyond the central rail.

2:42 A train manufactured in 1963 comes out of a tunnel that opened in 1966.

3:05 I (age 51) enter the tunnel, which opened in 1887.

3:20 This tunnel is the first railway tunnel designed and constructed solely by Japanese engineers. It is not the oldest as it opened later.
The lower part is stone and the upper part is brick.
In 2011, the northern Nagano earthquake (magnitude 6.7, seismic intensity 6 plus) occurred, but the tunnel did not collapse.

5:20 The past and present of the south exit

6:00 I was running on an embankment ahead.

7:00 At this point, it merges with the main line

7:40 View of the embankment from the side

7:58 train on the way home. You can see the old line tunnel even from inside the train.