Shin-Shirakawa

Weekday departures: 39/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:25 / 22:35

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (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:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Koriyama (Fukushima) ⇄ Nasushiobara
• Tohoku Main Line: Koriyama (Fukushima) ⇄ Nasushiobara

The site began as Iwaki-Nishigō Signal Station on 11 October 1944, and from 16 November that year handled car-load freight to and from a private siding. It was upgraded to a station on 7 April 1959 as Iwaki-Nishigō Station. When the Tōhoku Shinkansen opened on 23 June 1982 the station was renamed Shin-Shirakawa. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under JR East and JR Freight. From the timetable revision of 14 October 2017, after power-equipment work inside Kuroiso Station moved the AC/DC dead section to the Kuroiso–Takaku stretch south of Kuroiso, Shin-Shirakawa became the dividing point of Tōhoku Main Line operations: the Kuroiso–Shin-Shirakawa section was worked by E531 series dual-voltage electric trains and KiHa 110 series diesel cars, AC-only electric trains terminated here, and passengers changed between them across platforms 6 and 7.

Shin-Shirakawa is the only shinkansen station in Japan located in a village (Nishigō), although it sits on the boundary with Shirakawa City, whose territory covers the northern end of the shinkansen platforms. The scheduled shinkansen services that call here are the Nasuno trains to and from Kōriyama, the Yamabiko workings to and from Sendai that either make all stops or skip only Oyama, Nasushiobara and Shiroishi-Zaō, and two Tokyo-bound trains originating at Morioka; all Hayabusa, Tsubasa and Komachi services pass through without stopping.