Okutsugaru-imabetsu

Weekday departures: 13/day · Sat & holiday departures: 13/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:49 / 21:30

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026.

• Hokkaido Shinkansen: Kikonai ⇄ Shin-Aomori

Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station traces its history to the Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station of the Kaikyō Line, opened on 13 March 1988 with the line itself. The site had originally been planned as the Shin-Tsugaru-Futamata Signal Box, the Honshū-side maintenance base for the Seikan Tunnel, but repeated petitions from Imabetsu Town led to it being built as a passenger station funded by the town. After the route for the Hokkaidō Shinkansen between Shin-Aomori and Sapporo was approved on 31 January 1998, the Japan Railway Construction Corporation announced a Shinkansen station here on 3 February 1998. With the opening of the Shin-Aomori–Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto section on 26 March 2016, Tsugaru-Imabetsu was retired the previous day and Okutsugaru-Imabetsu opened on the same site, sharing a three-rail dual-gauge alignment with the Kaikyō freight line. It is the northernmost Shinkansen station on Honshū and the only JR Hokkaido passenger station outside Hokkaido — indeed the only station of any of the three island JR companies that lies on Honshū.

Okutsugaru-Imabetsu has the fewest boarding passengers of any Shinkansen station in Japan — an average of about 60 a day over its first eleven months (26 March 2016 to the end of February 2017). It serves the small town of Imabetsu in Aomori Prefecture.