Timetable information
Weekday departures: 25/day · Sat & holiday departures: 26/day
First / last departure (weekday): 7:04 / 23:21
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 17 April 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Tohoku Shinkansen: Shin-Aomori ⇄ Hachinohe
Location
History
Shichinohe-Towada Station opened on 4 December 2010 alongside the Tōhoku Shinkansen's extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori. Roadbed work began in October 2005, the building's design was finalised in 2007, and construction started in August 2008. A station-name announcement on 29 July 2009 confirmed the provisional Shichinohe would be replaced by Shichinohe-Towada to emphasise its role as a gateway to Lake Towada. The Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011 suspended service until 21 March 2011. From 16 March 2013 every Hayabusa service began stopping here. New IC and ticketless services followed in 2020 and 2021, with Eki-net Q Chiket added on 1 October 2024.
Notes
The station building was the first on a Shinkansen line to be composed of three boxes of differing sizes; the central box is meant to evoke the silhouette of the Hakkōda mountains.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Mister0124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18