Hachinohe Station


Hachinohe Station is a railway station operated by the East Japan Railway Company in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan.

Lines

Hachinohe Station is served by the high-speed Tohoku Shinkansen line between Tokyo and, and forms the starting point of the Hachinohe Line to. Local services are operated by the third sector Aoimori Railway on the section of the former JR Tōhoku Main Line between and. Ut is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line,

Station layout

Hachinohe is an elevated station with one side platform and two island platforms serving five tracks for regular services, and two island platforms serving four tracks for Tōhoku Shinkansen services. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

The station began operation as Shiriuchi Station on the Nippon Railway on September 1, 1891. Initially, construction of a railroad close to the coast was opposed by the Imperial Japanese Army 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, which became the Japanese National Railways 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 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 Iwate Prefecture 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.

Connecting bus routes

Route buses