Hachinohe Station

Hachinohe Station (八戸駅) 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 Tokyo and Shin-Aomori, and forms the starting point of the Hachinohe Line to Kuji. Local services are operated by the third sector Aoimori Railway on the section of the former JR Tōhoku Main Line between Metoki and Aomori. 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.

History
The station began operation as Shiriuchi Station (尻内駅) 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).

Route buses

 * JR Bus Tōhoku
 * For Lake Towada
 * Nanbu Bus
 * For Gonohe
 * For Konakano Bus Center via Yōka-machi
 * Towada Kanko Bus
 * For Towada via Shimoda and Rokunohe
 * For Mikka-machi
 * Hachonohe City Bus
 * For Asahigaoka Bus office via Mikka-machi

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)