is a railway station operated by the

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

(JR East) in

Hachinohe is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 221,459, and a population density of 725 persons per km2 in 96,092 households, making it Aomori Prefecture's second largest city by population. The city ...

Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 278,964 in 136,457 households, and a population density of 340 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of ...

, Japan.

Lines

Hachinohe Station is served by the high-speed

Tōhoku Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line, connecting Tokyo with Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in a route length of , making it Japan's longest Shinkansen line. It runs through the more sparsely populated Tōhoku region of Japan's main ...

line between and , and forms the starting point of the

Hachinohe Line The is a railway line in the Tohoku Region of Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It links Hachinohe Station in Hachinohe, Aomori with Kuji Station in Kuji, Iwate. The line stretches 64.9 km along the Pacific Ocean co ...

to . Local services are operated by the third sector

Aoimori Railway The is a regional rail line in Aomori Prefecture, Japan that is operated by the Aoimori Railway Company. It connects the terminal station of the Iwate Galaxy Railway Line, Metoki Station, in the town of Sannohe to Aomori Station, the termi ...

on the section of the former JR

Tōhoku Main Line The Tōhoku Main Line ( ja, 東北本線, ) is a long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and passes through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fuku ...

between and . It is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line and is the easternmost high-speed Shinkansen railway station in Japan.

Station layout

Hachinohe is an elevated station with one

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

and two

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

s serving five tracks for regular services, and two island platforms serving four tracks for Tōhoku Shinkansen services. The station has a ''

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

The station began operation as on the

Nippon Railway was the first private railway company in the history of Japan. The company built trunk lines connecting Tokyo with the Tōhoku region to the northeast. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationaliza ...

on September 1, 1891. Initially, the construction of a railroad close to the coast was opposed by the

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for defensive purposes, so the station was constructed at a considerable distance inland from the town center. The Hachinohe Line began operations on January 4, 1894, from Hachinohe Station. The Nippon Railway was nationalized on November 1, 1906, and Shiriuchi Station became a station on the

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR), which became the

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(JNR) after World War II. From 1929 to 1969, the now-defunct Nambu Railway also had its terminus at Shiriuchi Station. On April 1, 1971, Shiriuchi Station was renamed Hachinohe Station. The station previously named Hachinohe Station was renamed Hon-Hachinohe Station. Freight operations were transferred to the

Hachinohe Freight Terminal is a freight terminal in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan, operated by Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). Lines Hachinohe Freight Terminal is used by freight trains on the Tōhoku Main Line and Hachinohe Line. The terminal is also used by train ...

later that year and were discontinued completely from 1986. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was opened on July 1, 2002, and Tōhoku Shinkansen services began operation from December 12, 2002, with operations of the Tōhoku Main Line from Hachinohe to the border of

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transferred to the new Aoimori Railway. Following the opening of the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension to Shin-Aomori on December 4, 2010, all Tōhoku Main Line local services through the station were transferred to the Aoimori Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the JR East portion of the station was used by an average of 4,491 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Connecting bus routes

Route buses

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**For

Lake Towada is the largest crater lake in Honshū island, Japan. Located on the border between Aomori and Akita prefectures, it lies 400 meters (1,800 ft) above sea level and is 327 m (1,073 ft) deep, drained by the Oirase river. With ...

*Nanbu Bus **For

Gonohe is a town located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 16,880, and a population density of 95 persons per km2 in 7,006 households. The total area of the town is . Geography Gonohe is located in the north-east ...

**For Konakano Bus Center via Yōka-machi *Towada Kanko Bus **For Towada via Shimoda and

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**For Mikka-machi *Hachonohe City Bus **For Asahigaoka Bus office via Mikka-machi

Highway buses

* ''Sirius''; For

Ikebukuro Station Ikebukuro Station ( ja, 池袋駅, ) is a major railway station located in the Ikebukuro district of Toshima, Tokyo, Japan, shared by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro, and the two private railway operato ...

and

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is ...

* ''Shimokita''; For

Ōmiya Station (Saitama) is a passenger railway station located in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan. It is a major interchange station for the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and is also operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway. Lines The following lines ...

and Shinjuku Station * ''Enburi''; For Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station * For Karumai

Surrounding area

*Hachinohe Station building "Umineko plaza" **Hotel Mets Hachinohe *Hachinohe area stockbroker Sangho Shinko center "Yutori" **Hachinohe-Ekimae post office *Hachinohe Red Cross hospital * Flat Arena

References

External links

Hachinohe Station map

JR East station information page
{{Aoimori Line Railway stations in Aomori Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1891 Hachinohe Line Hachinohe Tōhoku Shinkansen Aoimori Railway Line