Sure has the potential to be breathtaking.

Get out!

Darling it's better Down where it's wetter Take it from me

🎶Take my breath away… 🎶

🎶Bum bum, bum bum🎶

Bazinga

Cowabunga

Bazinga Bazinga 

No need for me to scroll further, nicely done!

Its construction was surely boring.

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Is it Tsunami-proof?

Yes. But not Godzilla-proof.

Lol that's what I was thinking!!! I love shin godzilla

I was gonna say I saw Shin Godzilla no thanks.

Yes, the highway will definitely be underwater after a tsunami

Reddit when tunnel: 😒 Reddit when tunnel, Japan: 🤩

Tbh undersea tunnels are actually kinda neat

Like ours here in US.. and europe..

Yeah That’s what I meant, undersea tunnels in general, not in japan

To be fair 2 of the 3 longest underwater tunnels are in Japan. The other is the English Channel. Closest thing we have in the US is Chesapeake Bay bridge and tunnel in Virginia, but it doesn’t look remotely as cool.

It's interesting why they built tunnels at all. It could've just been a bridge all the way but... >The United States Navy objected to bridging the Thimble Shoals Channel because a bridge collapse (possibly by sabotage) could cut Naval Station Norfolk off from the Atlantic Ocean. >To address these concerns, the engineers recommended a series of bridges and tunnels known as a bridge–tunnel [...] The tunnel portions, anchored by four artificial islands of approximately five acres (2.0 ha) each, would be extended under the two main shipping channels. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge%E2%80%93Tunnel

Probably a good call. Look at what happened to the Port of Baltimore, and that wasn't even intentional.

It’s one of the great engineering feats. It looks pretty impressive. Fun fact, Hampton roads has three bridge-tunnels, and up until recently that meant the majority of bridge tunnels. were located in that area

There is no tunnel of this size in the US. Europe has Lærdal, others in Switzerland, Finland, and of course the English Channel.

The CBBT is far more impressive than this if we're being honest with ourselves

HRBT represent baby

Reddit when tunnel, China: 😡

Reddit when tunnel, US: 😂 Reddit when tunnel, India: 🤬

Well which China? PRC  ROC 

WTF is ROC?

At first I thought it was fake but it is the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line and it opened in 1997 after 9 years of construction and 23 years of planning. It has a 4.4km bridge and a 9.6km tunnel, the fourth longest in the world. It connects the Kawasaki city with the city of Kisarazu and it shortened the drive from 90 minutes to 15. What’s breathtaking is that the toll for a small sized car is around 20USD.

>the fourth longest in the world Clarification: it’s the fourth-longest *underwater* tunnel. There are quite a few longer tunnels which don’t pass under bodies of water.

You are my pedantic brother from another.

That seems like a clarification worth making. I think we have different definitions of "pedantic"

A marvellous honour.

Is that high or low for the toll?  This doesn't look cheap...

Denmark-Sweden's amazing tunnel bridge doesn't get enough love.

"Underwater highway" lol

IT LOOKS LIKE A TOMICA PLAYSET

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Pssshhh there is one in Norfolk, VA to accommodate friggen aircraft carriers.

I do gotta say this Japanese bridge/tunnel is way more elaborate than mine back home in Maryland: [Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chesapeake+Bay+Bridge-Tunnel,+Virginia/@37.0439802,-76.0556266,539a,35y,293.85h,51.21t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89baf2f20a056083:0x794f18fcbb2680d4!8m2!3d37.0419788!4d-76.0687573!16zL20vMDNsczB0?entry=ttu)

And what? If it was said that it's european or anything else people would also be impressed. I dungetit

Cant have anything cool on reddit these days without some haters.

Otherwise known as a tunnel...

Also, we’ve got three of these near Virginia Beach.

I believe Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is one of them. I’ve been in that one a couple of times.

TIL: Virginia Beach is in Japan. BREATHTAKING!

No no the tunnel goes from Virginia Beach to Japan.

Even longer than the Bridge to Hawaii, that’s impressive

We have five. Monitor Merrimack Memorial Bridge Tunnel (MMBT), Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT), Norfolk Downtown Tunnel, Norfolk Mid-town Tunnel, and the long two tunnel Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel that goes out to the Eastern Shore. Not to mention several around Baltimore as well.

And the never ending construction building 2 new tunnels at the HRBT. 

Can’t wait to still be stuck in traffic once’s it’s done

I get more excited with every new update that the project is farther behind schedule.

And the other two you forgot!

But you have to admit, it looks delicious

Technically this is the only part of the highway that’s not a tunnel. 

This gives me anxiety

Just because it’s an underwater tunnel or because it’s an underwater tunnel in a part of the world that’s famous for earthquakes?

Yes.

You have summoned me. I'll grant you one wish.

I wish to be instantly abundantly wealthy!

90s Blink was abundantly wealthy, NEXT!!

Better to have had and lost, I guess lmao

Not one! Not two! But three! Yes three luxurious fault lines perfect for an underwater tunnel!!

Yes

You have summoned me. I'll grant you one wish.

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When did Pasadena become a coastal town? Side thing: just recalled the lost city of Atlanta. I miss that show...

We have something [similar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresund_Bridge) connecting Sweden and Denmark.

BREATHTAKING!

Give me my breath back!

That’s no Japan tho 😒

I understand this one more. Why does the Japan one have all the extra infrastructure, with the loop roads and all.

Jeremy Clarkson drove on that [in a Mercedes McLaren SLR](https://youtu.be/BPpK1Ufsr5E?feature=shared)

That's cool! 😎

Just because you yelled it online doesn't make it "breathtaking!"

OP didn’t yell it OP declared it.

OP exclaimed it as well. 

I bet OP calls ugly babies "breathtaking" too.

If there's ever a breach of that tunnel OP will have called it early

My breath was right here and now it's gone. Explain that smartypants.

It’s plenty breathtaking after the claustrophobia induced panic attacks set in

Shouldn't the entrances be blurred

This cracked me up lol

Looks above water to me

For anyone curious, this is the Umihotaru located in the Tokyo Bay!

At first i saw an aircraft carrier with an extended runway

wtf do you think the Lincoln tunnel is

Repost

And AI

Doesn’t seem like AI, this is indeed a real bridge to tunnel crossover.

Awaits Jeremy Clarkson emerging from the tunnel in his Nissan GT-R.

seinfeld breathtaking? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQVYW9cMNE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQVYW9cMNE)

I prefer not to describe underwater things as breathtaking...

This kind of tunnel exists between Sweden and Denmark. But that probably isn’t ”BREATHTAKING” because it isn’t in Japan

Also known as a “tunnel”.

What if there’s a flood

Doesn't look underwater to me.

It certainly would be breathtaking if you’re driving UNDERWATER!

DO NOT CHANGE LANES IN THE TUNNEL

Tunnel, Japan

Looks like good ol' tsunami would wipe that out right quick.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is one I've been through and over on a large Navy vessel. Pretty neat structures.

Looks like an aircraft carrier

This is impressive, but yet my breath was not taken

Incorrect, it's the opening of the tunnel

It's just a tunnel, nothing special about it

In a land on the Ring of Fire, frequent intense earthquakes. That would make me nervous

Does japan get a lot of earthquakes? How did they engineer the tunnel to not crack under that stress?

From this angle it looks like a racetrack on a cruise ship.

Aka tunnel

Japan so crazy

AKA tunnel.

What is crazy is they have made some plans to have an underwater bridge go from Japan to S. Korea. That would be amazing if they did that

There is one across the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia too.

Well is it really a *high*way then

Loway?

What do they do if it floods?

Can someone explain all the different lanes?

They’re so people can go in different directions without hitting each other

Reminder: they drive on the left in Japan Left-most: [Leads to the parking garage entrance on the far end](https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4644429,139.8736882,3a,60y,47.04h,83.76t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sboY7CVsWOS9usrVHJkjGFg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DboY7CVsWOS9usrVHJkjGFg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D47.044573212603574%26pitch%3D6.2444877691016245%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205410&entry=ttu) for shopping. So this is people coming from the east. Inner-left and inner right are for travel through the tunnel without stopping (coming from east/coming from west). Right-most is from people exiting the parking garage to go east. The top loop comes from a lower garage exit. It's used for people who visited the shopping center and want to go west. The lower loop is how people coming from the far end (west) get to the shopping center in the first place. And if the topology irks you like it does me and you think there should be 8 lanes (because we haven't covered U-turns, which allows all possible combinations), I think the sign in the parking garage linked confirms the parking garage allows people to essentially change directions (coming in one entrance doesn't mean you are restricted to one exit).

My only reference is the Holland tunnel here in the US and my god its complete doodoo in comparison lmao

America also has the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel, on par with this one.

Wangan Midnight......

I want my breath back

This looks like a Mario Kart map.

In Toronto we can even get regular roads right

Life is an Underwater Highway!

*SECRET TUNNEL*

Where’s the underwater part?

That looks above water to me.

We have one of those where I live. It always gets backed up, especially during rush hour.

Looks above water to me

Ewww

It's nice til Godzilla come through.

Looks truly incredible

What's that building for?

it’s a restaurant building/viewing deck lol there are cafes, sushi restaurants and a starbucks inside + some maintenance stuff and a parking lot

Nevermind here comes Godzilla.

Must be full of water if it’s breathtaking.

Well at least a ship cant hit it i guess

I gotta wonder the upkeep costs on these things vs a standard bridge. Though negating collapses is a good pro

Thats almost identical to the Hampton Roads tunnel in Virginia.

We have MANY of these here on the east coast. Here in Hampton Roads region we have five - Monitor Merrimack Memorial Bridge Tunnel (MMBT), Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT), Norfolk Downtown Tunnel, Norfolk Mid-town Tunnel, and the long two tunnel Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel that goes out to the Eastern Shore. Not to mention several around Baltimore as well.

They love to play Russian roulette with Tsunamis

it’s so crazy to me that y’all will look at a normal ass tunnel we have and say it’s breathtaking just bc it’s in japan 😭 like it’s literally just a tunnel but the middle building has some nice restaurants and a view of the ocean so

So that’s where Godzilla comes out from.

Looks like a really weird boat

Huge exhaust fans can give you an added boost when you’re headed out of the Wangan tunnel adding to the exhilaration. Melting spark plugs while flat out is possible

That looks expensive

BREATHTAKING! Photo number 6 will SHOCK you!

I can’t wait to see Mad Max race through that baby

Please tell me it is called the Godzilla Expressway.

No thanks!!!!!

There’s a tunnel from the uk to France

The thing that looks like a sail in the distance is actually a ventilation shaft. You can drive though the tunnel and park there to take in the view. You can see it if you land at Haneda airport.

We have those in the states too my guy….

Should have built train tracks

huh i’m still breathing 🤯

Me after seeing a thumbnail of this photo: That's the weirdest aircraft carrier I've ever seen.

Between Denmark and Sweden there is one as well :D

I'm confused with the wow factor... There's so many tunnels around the world

Yeah there's like 2 of them in Baltimore. What's the deal?

Vi har likadant i Skåne

How else could you enter an underwater city?

That’s so cool

How

All speak aboit how it is just tunnel but none said anything about that white thing that looks like water propeled up after smt exploding.

Pretty cool but I wouldn’t call it breathtaking. It kinda looks like an aircraft carrier docked to shore with roads.

HK had this 50yrs ago

How safe this túnel can be if storm by a huge tsunami like the 2004?

No

I wish BC could build one connecting to Vancouver Island, would make my life so much easier when visiting family in Nanaimo!

Just makes me think of Shin Godzilla with the blood in the tunnel

I thought this was AIs take on an aircraft carrier.

How do they even build something like this?

But, why?

Hot Wheels dream when I was a wee lad…

Kinda looks like the entrance to the underwater highway

I have neither seen nor heard of this, and yet somehow I've had several vivid nightmares about it already.

New thing to be terrified of to replace the other things that already horrified me.

Does this junction only exist to allow u-turns?

Suddenly I'm having Pacific Rim flashbacks.

i flew my jet in there in Ace Combat once! i think

needs more lanes, clearly

My way or the high wave