Shin-Hanamaki Station

Shin-Hanamaki 新花巻
Shin-Hanamaki Station, August 2007
Location	10 Yazawa, Hanamaki, Iwate （岩手県花巻市矢沢第10地割） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tohoku Shinkansen Kamaishi Line
History
Opened	1985
Traffic
Passengers (FY2012)	909 daily

Shin-Hanamaki Station (新花巻駅, Shin-Hanamaki-eki^?) is a railway station in Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Shin-Hanamaki Station is served by the Tohoku Shinkansen and the Kamaishi Line. It is 500.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Tohoku Shinkansen at Tokyo Station and 6.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Kamaishi Line at Hanamaki Station. During the daytime, the station is served by approximately one shinkansen service per hour in each direction, and one local train every one to two hours in each direction on the Kamaishi Line.

The station consists of elevated side platforms for the Tohoku Shinkansen, running approximately north to south, and a single unnumbered side platform at ground level serving the single-track Kamaishi Line. The main Shinkansen portion of the station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Tohoku Shinkansen platforms have chest-high platform edge doors set back a few metres from the platform edge in addition to platform edge fences, as there are no centre tracks for non-stop trains at this station, and many trains pass through the station non-stop at high speed. The station building itself is designed with a motif from Miyazawa Kenji's Night on the Galactic Railroad.

Shin-Hanamaki Station opened on 14 March 1985. Construction was planned and funded by the city of Hanamaki and other local authorities, as the Tohoku Shinkansen was built several kilometres away from Hanamaki Station on the Tohoku Main Line. The former Yasawa Station (矢沢駅^?) located approximately 400 m to the west on the Kamaishi Line was closed coinciding with the opening of Shin-Hanamaki Station.