Bungo Channel

The Bungo Channel (豊後水道, Bungo-suidō^[1]) is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. It connects the Philippine Sea and the Seto Inland Sea on the western end of Shikoku.^[2] The narrowest part of this channel is the Hōyo Strait.

Bungo Channel
豊後水道 (Japanese)
Bungo Channel Map
Bungo Channel Location of Bungo Channel
Location	Japan
Coordinates	32°54′32″N 132°15′00″E
Type	Strait
Basin countries	Japan
Settlements	Ōita, Uwajima, Seiyo, Sukumo
References	Bungo Strait: Japan National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
Location

In the English-speaking world, the Bungo Strait is most known as a setting in the 1958 World War II submarine film Run Silent, Run Deep, based upon the best-selling 1955 novel by then-Commander Edward L. Beach Jr.^[3]