To provide a pipeline construction method capable of constructing a pipeline using a propulsion method without constructing an arrival shaft in the underground where existing infrastructure pipelines, urban tunnels, and underground structures are congested, thereby significantly reducing the construction period and cost, and also reducing the number of temporary structures left in the underground that may interfere with another construction work.SOLUTION: An excavator K1 of a propulsion machine that can be curved in the vertical and horizontal directions and a subsequent propulsion pipe K2 are started from a starting shaft, and the propulsion pipe K2 is added to build a pipeline underground. At a target point, the excavator K1 is dug upward toward the ground surface, and a part of the excavator K1 is projected on the ground surface. The excavator K1 partially protruding from the ground surface is pulled up in the projecting direction by a pull-up transport device HD arranged on the ground surface side, and the excavator K1 is separated from the propulsion pipe K2 and collected on the ground surface. A closing lid is attached to the subsequent propulsion pipe K2 so as to be backfilled.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 16