The invention discloses a construction method for enabling a shallowly buried and darkly excavated tunnel to pass through a cottage area. The construction method comprises the following steps: excavating a tunnel hole of the constructed shallowly buried and darkly excavated tunnel from back to front through a step excavation process, and performing preliminary bracing on the tunnel hole formed by excavating from back to front in an excavating process, wherein the tunnel hole consists of an upper guide hole and a lower guide hole positioned right below the upper guide hole, the rear part of the tunnel hole is connected with a vertical well, the preliminary bracing structure of the tunnel hole comprises a plurality of grating steel frameworks for supporting the tunnel hole from back to front, a layer of bar-mat reinforcement suspended on the inner wall of the tunnel hole and a concrete layer jetted on the inner wall of the tunnel hole. The process for excavating the tunnel hole of the shallowly buried and darkly excavated tunnel comprises the following steps: I, excavating the initial segment of the upper guide hole; II, excavating the initial segment of the lower guide hole; III, synchronously excavating the upper and the lower guide holes. The construction method disclosed by the invention is simple in step, reasonable in design, convenient in construction, good in construction effect, capable of simply completing the construction process of the shallowly buried and darkly excavated tunnel that passes through the cottage area, and safe and reliable in a construction process.