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Tōhoku Shinkansen


JR East 東日本旅客鉄道  Higashi Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō     East Japan Railway

Tōhoku Shinkansen 東北新幹線 Shinkansen      1435 mm     25 kV 50 Hz AC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Aomori Hachinohe Morioka Sendai & Yamagata Fukushima
Utsunomiya Oyama
Sendai
Tōkyō - Ōmiya
Ageo Ōmiya Koshigaya Akabane
Komagome Machiya Ueno Akihabara Tōkyō station
OpenedJune 23, 1982Ōmiya - MoriokaMaximum speed110 km/hTōkyō - Ōmiya
March 14, 1985Ueno - Ōmiya245 km/hŌmiya - Utsunomiya
June 20, 1991Tōkyō - Ueno275 km/hUtsunomiya - Morioka
Dec 1, 2002Morioka - Hachinohe260 km/hMorioka - Hachinohe
Dec 4, 2010Hachinohe - Shin-Aomori
TracksDouble track 
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Tōkyō Tōkyō Metro: Marunouchi (1), JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku,
JR East: Sōbu Hon (Tōkyō - Chiba), JR East: Keiyō, JR East: Yamanote,
JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami), JR East: Yokosuka, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso),
0.0 Tōkyō : Chiyoda-ku Tōkyō
Ueno Tōkyō Metro: Ginza, Tōkyō Metro: Hibiya, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku,
JR East: Yamanote, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso), Keisei: Hon [Keisei Ueno],
Keisei: Narita Sky Access [Keisei Ueno]
3.6 Tōkyō : Taitō-ku
Ōmiya Tōbu: Noda, JR East: Jōetsu Shinkansen, JR East: Takasaki,
JR East: Kawagoe, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Akabane - Musashi-Urawa - Ōmiya), JR East: Shōnan-Shinjuku Line,
JR East: Saikyō, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso),
Saitama Shin-toshi: Ina (Nyū Shatoru New Shuttle)
31.3 Saitama-shi Saitama
Oyama JR East: Mito, JR East: Ryōmō, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso),
80.3 Oyama-shi Tochigi
Utsunomiya JR East: Karasuyama, JR East: Nikkō, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso),
109.0 Utsunomiya-shi
Nasu-Shiobara JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso) 152.4 Nasushiobara-shi
Shin-Shirakawa JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Kuroiso - Sendai) 178.4 Nishigō-mura Fukushima
Kōriyama JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Kuroiso - Sendai), JR East: Banetsu-tō, JR East: Banetsu-sai,
213.9 Kōriyama-shi
Fukushima Abukyū: Abukuma kyūkō (Abukuma express), Fukushima: Iizaka, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Kuroiso - Sendai),
JR East: Ōu Hon [Yamagata] (Fukushima - Shinjō ), JR East: Yamagata Shinkansen
255.1 Fukushima-shi
Shiroishi-Zaō
286.2 Shiroishi-shi Miyagi
Sendai Sendai-shi: Namboku, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Sendai - Morioka), JR East: Senseki,
JR East: Senzan, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Kuroiso - Sendai)
325.4 Sendai-shi
Furukawa JR East: Rikuu-tō 363.8 Ōsaki-shi
Kurikoma-kōgen
385.7 Kurihara-shi
Ichinoseki JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Sendai - Morioka), JR East: Ōfunato 406.3 Ichinoseki-shi Iwate
Mizusawa-Esashi
431.3 Ōshū-shi
Kitakami JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Sendai - Morioka), JR East: Kitakami 448.6 Kitakami-shi
Shin-Hanamaki JR East: Kamaishi 463.1 Hanamaki-shi
Morioka IGR: Iwate Ginga Tetsudō, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Sendai - Morioka), JR East: Yamada,
JR East: Akita Shinkansen, JR East: Tazawako
496.5 Morioka-shi
Iwate-Numakunai IGR: Iwate Ginga Tetsudō 527.6 Iwate-machi
Ninohe IGR: Iwate Ginga Tetsudō 562.2 Ninohe-shi
Hachinohe Aoimori : Aoimori Tetsudō, JR East: Hachinohe 593.0 Hachinohe-shi Aomori
Shichinohe-Towada
628.2 Shichinohe-machi
Shin-Aomori JR East: Ōu Hon (Akita - Aomori) 674.9 Aomori-shi

Traffic pattern
The Akita Shinkansen trains, Komachi, are coupled together with the Hayate trains between Tōkyō and Morika
The Yamagata Shinkansen trains, Tsubasa, are coupled together with the Max Yamabiko between Tōkyō and Fukushima.
Between Tōkyō and Ōmiya, the Tōhoku Shinkansen is also used by the trains bound for Jōetsu and Nagano Shinkansen.
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Dec 6, 2010
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
ShinkansenHayate
はやて
Tōkyō - Sendai - Morioka - Shin-Aomori153h23199 km/h
Tōkyō - Sendai - Morioka72h26204 km/h
Sendai - Morioka - Shin-Aomori12h24146 km/h
Morioka - Shin-Aomori11h02173 km/h
Max Yamabiko
Maxやまびこ
Tōkyō - Sendai171h53173 km/h
Kōriyama - Sendai141 min163 km/h
Yamabiko
やまびこ
Tōkyō - Sendai - Morioka103h06160 km/h
Tōkyō - Sendai141h53173 km/h
Nasu-Shiobara - Sendai11h09150 km/h
Sendai - Morioka21h11145 km/h
Max Nasuno
Maxなすの
Tōkyō - Nasu-Shiobara11h10131 km/h
Nasuno
なすの
Tōkyō - Kōriyama61h39130 km/h
Tōkyō - Nasu-Shiobara91h09133 km/h
Tsubasa
つばさ
Tōkyō - Fukushima - Yamagata -Shinjō
All other Tsubasa trains runs together with Max Yamabiko between Tōkyō and Fukushima.
13h41110 km/h


This page is updated Nov 2, 2011