Operated by JR East Address Japan | Passengers (FY2012) 909 daily Opened 1985 | |
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Location 10 Yazawa, Hanamaki, Iwate
（岩手県花巻市矢沢第10地割）
Japan Line(s) Tohoku Shinkansen
Kamaishi Line Similar Hanamaki Station, Kamaishi Station, Kitakami Station, Mizusawa‑Esashi Station, Nitanai Station | ||
Shinkansen passing by jr east shin hanamaki station
Shin-Hanamaki Station (新花巻駅, Shin-Hanamaki-eki) is a railway station in Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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Shinkansen blowing by shin hanamaki station
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Shin-Hanamaki Station is served by the Tohoku Shinkansen and the Kamaishi Line. It is 500.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Tohoku Shinkansen at Tokyo Station and 6.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Kamaishi Line at Hanamaki Station. During the daytime, the station is served by approximately one shinkansen service per hour in each direction, and one local train every one to two hours in each direction on the Kamaishi Line.
Station layout
The station consists of elevated side platforms for the Tohoku Shinkansen, running approximately north to south, and a single unnumbered side platform at ground level serving the single-track Kamaishi Line. The main Shinkansen portion of the station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Tohoku Shinkansen platforms have chest-high platform edge doors set back a few metres from the platform edge in addition to platform edge fences, as there are no centre tracks for non-stop trains at this station, and many trains pass through the station non-stop at high speed. The station building itself is designed with a motif from Miyazawa Kenji's Night on the Galactic Railroad.
History
Shin-Hanamaki Station opened on 14 March 1985. Construction was planned and funded by the city of Hanamaki and other local authorities, as the Tohoku Shinkansen was built several kilometres away from Hanamaki Station on the Tohoku Main Line. The former Yasawa Station (矢沢駅) located approximately 400 m to the west on the Kamaishi Line was closed coinciding with the opening of Shin-Hanamaki Station.
The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
The Kamaishi Line platform and connecting passage to the main station building was renovated in 2014 with a style evoking the early 20th-century Taisho period portrayed in works by author Kenji Miyazawa, with work completed on 14 October 2014.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2012, the station was used by an average of 909 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.