Furukawa

Weekday departures: 44/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:53 / 22:48

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Tohoku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Rikuu East Line: no timetable data

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Kurikoma-Kogen ⇄ Sendai (Miyagi)

Furukawa Station opened on 20 April 1913 as a station on the Rikuu Line (today's Rikuu East Line), running between Kogota and Iwadeyama. On 11 June 1915 it was renamed Rikuzen-Furukawa Station to avoid confusion with Koga Station on the Tōhoku Main Line. After Furukawa was chosen as the local Tōhoku Shinkansen stop in 1971, a new station building was built about 300 m east of the original site; revenue service from the new location began on 1 November 1980, when the original name was restored. Tōhoku Shinkansen services started on 23 June 1982. The station was transferred to JR East upon the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987.

As a Tōhoku Shinkansen station, its operating distance is calculated using that of Kogota Station on the conventional line, and tickets between Sendai and Ichinoseki allow travel by way of either this station or Kogota Station.