History
Hachinohe Station opened on 1891-09-01 as Shiriuchi Station of the private Nippon Railway's Aomori Line, in what was then the village of Kaminagaonai, west of Hachinohe proper. After the Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1906-11-01 the station became part of the Tōhoku Main Line. A branch to the original Hachinohe Station (today's Hon-Hachinohe) opened in January 1894. After Kaminagaonai was merged into Hachinohe in 1955, Shiriuchi was renamed Hachinohe on 1971-04-01 and the older Hachinohe became Hon-Hachinohe. The current building, built to receive the Shinkansen, was put into temporary service in September 2000 and fully opened on 2002-12-01 with the Shinkansen extension from Morioka; on the same day the Mejisaki–Hachinohe local section transferred to Aoimori Railway. The 2010-12-04 extension to Shin-Aomori transferred the rest of the in-prefecture Tōhoku Main Line, including the local platforms here, to Aoimori Railway. A sister-station agreement with Hakodate and Aomori was signed on 2003-06-21.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Hachinohe is the easternmost Shinkansen station in Japan, lying farther east than the eventual Hokkaidō Shinkansen terminus planned for Sapporo.