Excavation of the colossal cavern to house the main detector for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment is complete.
On July 31, 2025, the Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration completed the excavation of the colossal cavern that will house the main detector volume of Hyper-Kamiokande, a next-generation ultra-pure water Cherenkov detector currently under construction in the city of Hida, Gifu, Japan.