Shin-Aomori Station

Shin-Aomori Station

新青森駅
Shin-Aomori Station; 新青森駅
	The east entrance in September 2022
General information
Location	Ishie, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture 038-0003; Japan
Coordinates	40°49′39″N 140°41′36.5″E / 40.82750°N 140.693472°E / 40.82750; 140.693472
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tōhoku Shinkansen; Hokkaido Shinkansen; Ōu Main Line;
Distance	713.7 km (443.5 mi) from Tokyo
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	6
Train operators	JR East; JR Hokkaido;
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Status	Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi)
Website	Official website
History
Opened	1 November 1986; 37 years ago
Rebuilt	2010; 14 years ago
Passengers
FY2016	7,652 daily
Services
Location
	Shin-Aomori Station Location within Aomori Prefecture Shin-Aomori Station Shin-Aomori Station (Japan)

Shin-Aomori Station (新青森駅, Shin-Aomori-eki) is a railway station in the city of Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).

Lines

Shin-Aomori Station is the northern terminus of the Ōu Main Line from Fukushima via Akita (a distance of 486.3 km (302.2 mi)), although most trains continue to Aomori. It also forms the northern terminus of the high-speed Tōhoku Shinkansen line from Tokyo (a distance of 674.0 km (418.8 mi)), operated by JR East, and the starting point of the Hokkaido Shinkansen to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto (a distance of 148.9 km (92.5 mi)), operated by JR Hokkaido.

Station layout

The conventional Ōu Main Line has a single island platform, serving two tracks. In addition to regular Ōu Main Line trains, the station serves two round-trips per day of Aoimori Railway trains, as well as two round-trips of the irregular Resort Asunaro (direct to Noheji and the Ōminato Line). Upon the opening of the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension on 4 December 2010, the station became the southern terminus of Hakuchō Limited express services to Hakodate via the Tsugaru Kaikyō Line, which ceased upon commencement of the Hokkaidō Shinkansen in March 2016.

The Shinkansen portion of the station, which opened on 4 December 2010, consists of two elevated island platforms serving four tracks. The platforms are 263 meters long and capable of handling 10-car trains.^[1] The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Previously, Shin-Aomori Station was an unmanned station consisting of a single side platform for bi-directional traffic.

Platforms

1	■ Ōu Main Line	for Aomori
2	■ Ōu Main Line	for Hirosaki and Akita
11,12	■ Tōhoku Shinkansen	for Hachinohe, Morioka, Sendai, and Tokyo
13,14	■ Hokkaido Shinkansen	for Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto

History

Shin-Aomori Station opened on 1 November 1986 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. Work on a new station building began in July 2007, and was completed in 2010 ahead of the opening of the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension on 4 December 2010.

The Hokkaido Shinkansen to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto opened on 26 March 2016, and is being extended to Sapporo, due to open in 2031. Shinkansen services replaced the former Hakucho and Super Hakucho limited express services from March 2016.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the conventional portion station was used by an average of 3,619 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) and the Shinkansen portion by 4,033 passengers.^[2]^[3] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average		Total
Fiscal year	(Conventional)	(Shinkansen)	Total
2010	1,083^[4]	–	1,083
2011	2,730^[5]	–	2,730
2012	3,319^[6]	4,571^[7]	7,890
2013	3,639^[8]	4,523^[9]	8,162

Surrounding area

National Route 280
Aomori-Nishi High School
Shinjo Elementary School
Galatown Aomori West Mall
Aomori Kenko Land

References

^ Misawa, Manabu (January 2010). 東北新幹線・九州新幹線建設状況最新レポート. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 39, no. 309. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 29–35.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2016年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
^ 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2016年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2010年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2011年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2012年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2012年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2013年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2013年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

External links

Official website (in Japanese)

[dj309-1] Misawa, Manabu (January 2010). 東北新幹線・九州新幹線建設状況最新レポート. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 39, no. 309. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 29–35.

[jreast2016stats-2] 各駅の乗車人員 (2016年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.

[jreast2016stats_shinkansen-3] 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2016年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.

[jreast2010stats-4] 各駅の乗車人員 (2010年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

[jreast2011stats-5] 各駅の乗車人員 (2011年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

[jreast2012stats-6] 各駅の乗車人員 (2012年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

[jreast2012stats_shinkansen-7] 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2012年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

[jreast2013stats-8] 各駅の乗車人員 (2013年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

[jreast2013stats_shinkansen-9] 新幹線駅別乗車人員 (2013年度) [Shinkansen passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

v t e Stations of the Ōu Main Line
Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka ~~Akaiwa~~ Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō
Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari
Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kariwano Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Izumi-Sotoasahikawa Tsuchizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

v t e Stations of the Hokkaido Shinkansen
(for Tokyo) Shin-Aomori Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Kikonai Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto
Planned	Shin-Yakumo Oshamambe Kutchan Shin-Otaru Sapporo

v t e Mass transit in Greater Aomori Area
JR East and JR Hokkaido lines	Hokkaido Shinkansen Tōhoku Shinkansen Ōu Tsugaru Tsugaru-Kaikyō
JR named trains	Akebono Hayabusa Hayate Cassiopeia Hakuchō Hamanasu Super Hakuchō Super Hokuto Kamoshika Nihonkai Resort Shirakami Shimokita Tsugaru Twilight Express
Other railways	Aoimori Hachinohe Rinkai (maintenance only) JR Freight (freight only)
Terminals	Rail Aomori Asamushi-Onsen Shin-Aomori Airports Aomori Ports Aomori
Public Ferries	Mutsu-wan Ferry (Kanita—Wakinosawa) Seikan Ferry (Aomori—Hakodate) Sii Line (Aomori—Wakinosawa—Ushitaki—Fukuura—Sai) Tsugaru Kaikyō Ferry (Aomori—Hakodate)
Bus	Aomori City Bus JR Bus Tōhoku Kōnan Bus Company Shimokita Kōtsu Willer Express
Funiculars and aerial lifts	Hakkōda Ropeway
Miscellaneous	Shinkansen Cards Suica
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