Morioka

Weekday departures: 139/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 137/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:00 / 23:05

Busiest hour in the available data: 14:00–15:00 (12)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 7 August 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: Iwate Galaxy Railway Line, Tohoku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• Iwate Galaxy Railway Line: Aoyama (Iwate)
• Tazawako Line: Shizukuishi
• Tohoku Shinkansen: Iwate-Numakunai ⇄ Shin-Hanamaki
• Tohoku Main Line: Kitakami

Morioka Station opened on 1 November 1890 as a station of the private Nippon Railway and joined the national network upon nationalisation in November 1906. The Hashiba light railway, today's Tazawako Line, arrived on 25 June 1921 and the Yamada Line on 10 October 1923. A Western-Japanese-fusion second station building of 1917 was succeeded by a third in November 1959 — the first Minshu-eki in Tohoku — and the fourth, the present building with the Fezan retail complex, opened on 10 April 1981. The Tōhoku Shinkansen reached Morioka on 23 June 1982 and the Akita Shinkansen began joint operation here on 22 March 1997. Suica acceptance on the Tōhoku Main Line and Tazawako Line followed on 27 May 2023.

Since 1 November 2019 the Shinkansen platforms have used Kazumasa Oda's song Daijōbu — theme music for the Morioka-set NHK serial Dondo Hare — as the departure melody, with usage extended indefinitely after its initial 2021 sunset.