Mizusawa-Esashi Station

Mizusawa-Esashi Station 水沢江刺駅
Mizusawa-Esashi Station in January 2006
Location	Mizusawa-ku 1-185 Hadacho-emikae, Ōshū, Iwate （岩手県奥州市水沢区羽田町駅前1丁目185番地） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Shinkansen
History
Opened	1985
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010[1])	946 daily

Mizusawa-Esashi Station (水沢江刺駅 Mizusawa-Esashi-eki) is a railway station in Ōshū, Iwate, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Mizusawa-Esashi Station is served by the Tōhoku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori. It is 470.1 rail kilometers from the starting point of the Tōhoku Shinkansen at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Mizusawa-Esashi Station has two elevated opposed side platforms with chest-high platform edge doors. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Tohoku Shinkansen	for Morioka, Shin-Aomori and Akita
2	■ Tohoku Shinkansen	for Sendai, Utsunomiya, Ōmiya, and Tokyo

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tōhoku Shinkansen
Hayabusa: Does not stop at this station
Ichinoseki		Hayate Yamabiko		Kitakami

Some Hayate trains pass non-stop at this station.

History

Mizusawa-Esashi Station opened on March 14, 1985, three years after the opening of the Tōhoku Shinkansen.^[2]

Surrounding area

• Kitakami River
• Japan National Route 397
• Japan National Route 456
• Mizusawa Racecource

References

1. JR East statistics. 2010 passenger statistics
2. Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese) II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 424. ISBN 4533029809.

External links

• JR East station information (Japanese)

Coordinates: 39°08′43″N 141°11′19″E / 39.145339°N 141.188693°E