3 corridors linking 11 cities, about 2,200 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 2,700 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 2 cross-border links and crossings. Wakkanai to Kagoshima along the Shinkansen lines, with sea crossings north to Sakhalin and west to Korea.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Japan network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
JP-1 Hokkaido–Tohoku: Wakkanai – Sapporo – Hakodate – Aomori – Sendai – Tokyo
JP-2 Tokaido–Sanyo: Tokyo – Nagoya – Osaka – Hiroshima – Fukuoka
JP-3 Kyushu: Fukuoka – Kagoshima
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Japan.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Japan: Make contact.
