Shin-Shirakawa

Weekday departures: 39/day · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:25 / 22:35

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tōhoku Shinkansen: Koriyama (Fukushima) ⇄ Nasushiobara
• Tōhoku Main Line: Koriyama (Fukushima) ⇄ Nasushiobara

The site began as Iwaki-Nishigō Signal Stop on 11 October 1944, with a freight siding opening in November the same year. It was upgraded to a station on 7 April 1959 as Iwaki-Nishigō Station (磐城西郷駅). When the Tōhoku Shinkansen opened on 23 June 1982 the station was renamed Shin-Shirakawa. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under JR East and JR Freight. From 14 October 2017, when the Kuroiso–Kōriyama power-supply upgrade made the AC/DC dead-section move south of Kuroiso, the station became the operational boundary between AC electric stock and DC electric stock, with passengers transferring between trains on platforms 6 and 7.

Shin-Shirakawa is the only shinkansen-stop station in Japan located in a village (Nishigō), although the platforms straddle the boundary between Nishigō and Shirakawa City to the north. The Nasu, Yamabiko (Sendai-bound stopping types), and a few morning Hayabusa trains from Morioka call here; Hayabusa, Tsubasa and Komachi services pass through without stopping.