Ichinoseki Station

Ichinoseki Station 一ノ関駅
Ichinoseki Station in October 2010
Location	67-1 Ekimae, Ichinoseki, Iwate （岩手県一関市一関市駅前67-1） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōhoku Main Line, Ōfunato Line
History
Opened	1890
Traffic

Passengers (FY2012)	4,562 daily

Ichinoseki Station (一ノ関駅, Ichinoseki-eki) is a railway station in Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Ichinoseki Station is served by the Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōhoku Main Line and is a terminal station for the Ōfunato Line. It is 445.1 rail kilometers from the starting point of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and Tōhoku Main Line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Ichinoseki Station has a single side platform and an island platform serving the Tōhoku Main Line and Ōfunato Line, and a pair of elevated opposed side platforms for the Tōhoku Shinkansen.

Platforms

1	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Kitakami and Morioka for Kogota and Sendai (starting services)
2	■ Tōhoku Main Line	for Kogota and Sendai for Kitakami and Morioka (starting services)
3	■ Ōfunato Line	for Kesennuma
11	■ Tōhoku Shinkansen	for Morioka, Shin-Aomori, and Akita
12	■ Tōhoku Shinkansen	for Sendai, Ōmiya, and Tokyo

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Tōhoku Shinkansen
Hayabusa: Does not stop at this station
Kurikoma-Kōgen	Hayate^{[* 1]}		Mizusawa-Esashi
Kurikoma-Kōgen	Yamabiko		Mizusawa-Esashi
Tōhoku Main Line
Sendai	Cassiopeia	Morioka
Arikabe	-	Yamanome
Ōfunato Line
Terminus	Local	Mataki

↑ Most Hayate services pass non-stop through this station.

History

Ichinoseki Station opened on April 16, 1890 on what is now the Tōhoku Main Line. Service on the Ōfunato Line started from July 26, 1925, and on the Tōhoku Shinkansen from June 23, 1982. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Surrounding area

Ichinoseki City Hall
Ichinoseki Post Office

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ichinoseki Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Tōhoku Shinkansen

Tokyo Ueno Ōmiya Oyama Utsunomiya Nasushiobara Shin-Shirakawa Kōriyama Fukushima Shiroishi-Zaō Sendai Furukawa Kurikoma-Kōgen Ichinoseki Mizusawa-Esashi Kitakami Shin-Hanamaki Morioka Iwate-Numakunai Ninohe Hachinohe Shichinohe-Towada Shin-Aomori

Stations of the Tōhoku Main Line

Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)	Ueno Oku Akabane Urawa Saitama-Shintoshin Ōmiya Toro Higashi-Ōmiya Hasuda Shiraoka Shin-Shiraoka Kuki Higashi-Washinomiya Kurihashi Koga Nogi Mamada Oyama Koganei Jichiidai Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Utsunomiya Okamoto Hōshakuji Ujiie Kamasusaka Kataoka Yaita Nozaki Nishi-Nasuno Nasushiobara Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka	Kuroiso Takaku Kurodahara Toyohara Shirasaka Shin-Shirakawa Shirakawa Kutano Izumizaki Yabuki Kagamiishi Sukagawa Asaka-Nagamori Kōriyama Hiwada Gohyakugawa Motomiya Sugita Nihonmatsu Adachi Matsukawa Kanayagawa Minami-Fukushima Fukushima Higashi-Fukushima Date Koori Fujita Kaida Kosugō Shiroishi Higashi-Shiroishi Kita-Shirakawa Ōgawara Funaoka Tsukinoki Iwanuma Tatekoshi Natori Minami-Sendai Taishidō Nagamachi Sendai Higashi-Sendai Iwakiri (Shin-Rifu Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō Kokufu-Tagajō Shiogama Matsushima Atago Shinainuma Kashimadai Matsuyama-Machi Kogota Tajiri Semine Umegasawa Nitta Ishikoshi Yushima Hanaizumi Shimizuhara Arikabe Ichinoseki Yamanome Hiraizumi Maesawa Rikuchū-Orii Mizusawa Kanegasaki Rokuhara Kitakami Murasakino Hanamaki Hanamaki Airport Ishidoriya Hizume Shiwachūō Furudate Yahaba Iwate-Iioka Senbokuchō Morioka

Stations of the Ōfunato Line

Stations in Italics were destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and are currently being served by a provisional Bus Rapid Transit line.

Coordinates: 38°55′36″N 141°08′19″E / 38.926531°N 141.138697°E / 38.926531; 141.138697

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