Kurikoma-Kogen

Weekday departures: 40/day · Sat & holiday departures: 37/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:57 / 22:38

Busiest hour: 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.

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Ichinoseki ⇄ Furukawa

Kurikoma-Kōgen Station opened on 10 March 1990 on the Tōhoku Shinkansen at Kurihara, Miyagi, as a locally-funded petition station added after the line itself had been built. Campaigns for a Shinkansen stop in northern Miyagi began in 1979 around the former town of Tsukidate; the project later relocated to Shiwahime and broadened into a regional coalition, and the roughly 3.2 billion yen needed for the station building and its forecourt was shared between the local municipalities and Miyagi Prefecture, which put up 1.2 billion yen. JR East rejected the public-suggested names in favour of its own choice, "Kurikoma-Kōgen." The elevated station offers two side platforms equipped with movable platform safety fences because no through track separates passing trains from waiting passengers.

Despite "kōgen" ("highland") in its name, the station sits at roughly 20 metres above sea level on the Miyagi rice plain.