Greater East Asia Railroad
Greater East Asia Railroad (大東亜縦貫鉄道 Daitōa Jūkan Tetsudō) was an idea for a railroad linking Japan with the Asian mainland and Europe, formulated in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War leading to World War II. Part of the plan included a tunnel or bridge somewhat similar to the more recent Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel proposal.
Studied routes
A report published in 1942 titled 大東亜縦貫鉄道に就て (About the Greater East Asia Through Railway) presents the following routes as proposals:
- Daiichi through rail corridor (第1縦貫鉄道群), Connecting Tokyo and Shonan Island
- Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian(present day Shenyang) – Tientsin – Peking – Hankou – Hengyang – Kweilin – Liuzhou – Nanning – Trấn Nam Quan – Xóm Cục – Thakhek – Kumphawapi – Bangkok – Padang Besar – Shonan-To(present day Singapore)
- A separate line to 1. that splits from Tientsin for Nanking
- Sea route linking Nagasaki to Shanghai that merges to 1.
- Daini through rail corridor (第2縦貫鉄道群)
- Daisan through rail corridor (第3縦貫鉄道群), Connection between Japan and its ally Germany)
- Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian – Harbin – Manzhouli – Irkutsk – Moscow – Berlin(utilizes the Siberian Railway)
- Tokyo – (Kobe or Moji) – Tientsin – Zhangjiakou – Baotou – Suzhou – Anxi – Hami – Kashgar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin (Trans-Central Asia Railway Project)
- Tokyo – (Nagasaki) – Shanghai – Kunming – Rangoon – Calcutta – Peshawar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin
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