History
Ichinoseki Station opened on 1890-04-16 as a general station of the Nippon Railway. It became a state-owned station with the railway's nationalisation in November 1906 and was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line when the route-name system was introduced in October 1909. The Ōfunato Line opened on 1925-07-26, making the station a junction. On 1945-08-10, a US carrier-aircraft raid struck the station and killed 28 people, including 25 staff sheltering in the on-site air-raid trench. A reinforced-concrete two-storey building replaced the older wooden one on 1970-03-31, and the Tōhoku Shinkansen opened on 1982-06-23. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1987-04-01 privatisation; automatic gates were installed at the Shinkansen barrier on 1999-02-10, and partial Suica service began on 2014-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 20 March 2019 the Shinkansen platforms have used an arrangement of NSP's Yūgure-doki wa Sabishisō — chosen because every NSP member graduated from Ichinoseki National College of Technology — as the departure melody.