Ichinoseki

Weekday departures: 46/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:48 / 22:36

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Tōhoku Shinkansen: Mizusawa-Esashi ⇄ Kurikoma-Kogen
• Tōhoku Main Line: Kitakami ⇄ Sendai (Miyagi)

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.

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.