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Noticed that most railway tunnels in Japan have a nameplate at the side or top - see attached example from Atami.

 

I assume they are the name of the tunnel but what form do they use and is the last character "tunnel"? So does this one say "Atami Tunnel"?

 

It is a detail missing from my layout I want to fix by adding them - I could make it anything in best babelfish japanese but as I would know it's probably gibberish then I would rather get it right.

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Good question, but from my initial search on wikipedia (until someone most learned than us can intervene) it seems that Japanese are using Katakanas to write tunnel ("toneru").

 

I also have seen things written on the entrance of bridges.

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