Ichinoseki

Weekday departures: 46/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:48 / 22:36

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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 Ofunato Line: no timetable data
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Mizusawa-Esashi ⇄ Kurikoma-Kogen
• Tohoku Main Line: Kitakami ⇄ Sendai (Miyagi)

Ichinoseki Station opened on 16 April 1890 as a general station of the Nippon Railway. It became a state-owned station with the railway's nationalisation in November 1906 and was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line when the route-name system was introduced in October 1909. The Ōfunato Line opened on 26 July 1925, making the station a junction. On 10 August 1945, a US carrier-aircraft raid struck the station and its surroundings, killing 29 people there, among them 25 of the 33 staff sheltering in the air-raid shelter inside the station grounds. A reinforced-concrete two-storey building replaced the previous station building on 31 March 1970, and the Tōhoku Shinkansen opened on 23 June 1982. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1 April 1987 privatisation; automatic gates were installed at the Shinkansen barrier on 10 February 1999, and partial Suica service began on 1 April 2014.

Since 20 March 2019 the Shinkansen platforms have used an arrangement of NSP's Yūgure-doki wa Sabishisō — chosen because every NSP member graduated from Ichinoseki National College of Technology — as the departure melody.