History
Mizusawa-Esashi Station opened on 14 March 1985 in the city of Ōshū, Iwate Prefecture, three years after the Tōhoku Shinkansen began running through the area. It is served by the Tōhoku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori and lies 470.1 kilometres from the line's starting point at Tokyo Station. The station has two elevated opposed side platforms equipped with chest-high platform edge doors. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 31 January 2024 and was replaced by a talking reserved-seat ticket machine from 1 February 2024; the station remains directly operated by East Japan Railway Company.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Mizusawa-Esashi opened three years after the Tōhoku Shinkansen began running through the area, an unusual gap reflecting that the station itself was added later as a regional petition stop.