is a railway station operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan.
Lines Hachinohe Station is served by the high-speed Tōhoku Shinkansen line between 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 . 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 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 on the Nippon Railway on September 1, 1891. Initially, the 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 (JGR), which became the Japanese National Railways (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 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 (boarding passengers only).
Connecting bus routes Route buses Boarding areaOperatorDirectionLine / DestinationNotes1Hachinohe City busHachinohe Chushingai Terminal（Hachinohe city central）Nanbu bus2Towada Kankō Electric Railway□ C：Hachinohe Chushingai Terminal（Yōkamachi）/ Hachinohe Office / Hachinohe city Hospital3Hachinohe city busNishi high school N63：Nishi high schoolNanbu bus T63：Nishi high school4Hachinohe newtown・Hassyoku center5Gonohe・KarumaiTowada Kankō Electric RailwayTowada city K：Towadashi
Highway buses Sirius; For Ikebukuro Station and Tokyo Station Shimokita; For Ōmiya Station (Saitama) 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 Hachinohe (indoor ice arena)
See also List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Hachinohe Station map JR East station information page