Shin-Hanamaki

Weekday departures: 40/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:22 / 23:02

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Tōhoku Shinkansen: Morioka ⇄ Kitakami

Shin-Hanamaki Station opened on 14 March 1985, the day the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended between Ueno and Ōmiya, after Hanamaki residents lobbied for years to obtain a Shinkansen stop. Construction was funded by the city and surrounding authorities, and the nearby Yasawa Station on the Kamaishi Line was closed when Shin-Hanamaki absorbed its function. JR East took over operations on 1 April 1987. The Kamaishi Line platform and connecting passage were renovated in 2014 in a Taishō-era style evoking Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad, completed on 14 October that year. From 25 March 2023 the Shinkansen departure jingle has been an arrangement of "Hoshi-meguri no Uta", composed by Miyazawa.

Shin-Hanamaki opened as one of the first two Shinkansen stations in Japan to be built entirely with locally raised funds — donations gathered under the slogan "one tsubo per resident" helped the city acquire the site.