| Bungo Channel | |
| Basin Countries: | Japan |
| Location: | Japan |
| Pushpin Map: | Japan |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Bungo Channel |
| Coordinates: | 32.909°N 132.25°W |
| Type: | strait |
| Cities: | Ōita, Uwajima, Seiyo, Sukumo |
| Reference: | Bungo Strait: Japan National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA |
The 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.[1] The narrowest part of this channel is the Hōyo Strait.
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.[2] On 9 November 1944, the USS Archerfish sank the Shinano, just nine hours into its maiden voyage in the Bungo strait. Shinano had been built in secret after being converted to a carrier, from a battleship of the Yamato class.