Akita Station

Railway station in Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Akita Shinkansen
Ōu Main Line
Uetsu Main Line
Oga Line

Distance662.6 km (411.7 mi) from TokyoPlatforms4 island platforms + 2 bay platformsTracks10ConnectionsAt gradeOther informationWebsiteOfficial websiteHistoryOpened21 October 1902; 121 years ago (21 October 1902)Rebuilt16 March 1997; 27 years ago (1997-03-16)PassengersFY201810,733 daily Services

Preceding station		Following station
Ōmagari towards Tokyo	Akita Shinkansen Komachi	Terminus
Terminus	Tsugaru	Hachirōgata towards Aomori
Yotsugoya One-way operation	Ōu Main Line Rapid	Izumi-Sotoasahikawa towards Aomori
Yotsugoya towards Shinjō	Ōu Main Line Local	Izumi-Sotoasahikawa towards Aomori
Ugo-Honjō towards Niigata	Inaho	Terminus
Ugo-Ushijima towards Niitsu	Uetsu Main Line	Terminus
Terminus	Oga Line	Izumi-Sotoasahikawa towards Oga

Location

Akita Station

Location within Akita Prefecture

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Akita Station

Akita Station (Tohoku, Japan)

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Akita Station

Akita Station (Japan)

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Akita Station (秋田駅, Akita-eki) is a junction railway station in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Akita Station is the northern terminus of the Akita Shinkansen, and is 127.3 kilometers from Morioka and 662.6 kilometers from Tokyo. The station is also the northern terminus of the Uetsu Main Line and is 298.7 kilometers from the starting point of that line at Niitsu and is also a station on Ōu Main Line. Most trains on the Oga Line continue past the nominal southern terminal of that line at Oiwake to terminate at Akita Station.

Shinkansen

Komachi (Tokyo–Akita)

Limited Express

Tsugaru (Akita–Aomori)
Inaho (Niigata–Sakata–Akita)

Station layout

The station is an elevated station, consisting of four island platforms serving eight tracks for regular trains, and two bay platforms for the Akita Shinkansen. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office and a View Plaza travel agency.^[1]

Platforms

1	■Ōu Main Line	for Higashi-Noshiro, Ōdate, and Aomori
1	■Oga Line	for Oga
2–6	■Ōu Main Line	for Higashi-Noshiro, Ōdate, and Aomori
	■Ōu Main Line	for Ōmagari, Yokote and Shinjō
	■Uetsu Main Line	for Ugo-Honjō, Sakata, and Niigata
	■Oga Line	for Oga
7/8	■Ōu Main Line	for Higashi-Noshiro, Ōdate, and Aomori
11	■Akita Shinkansen	Arriving trains, Extra Komachi Tazawako Line empty trains Extra Rapid Hanabi
12	■Akita Shinkansen	Komachi for Morioka, Sendai, and Tokyo

History

Akita Station opened on 21 October 1902.^[2] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987. The station's building was renovated in 1997.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 10,733 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[3] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	13,919^[4]
2005	12,509^[5]
2010	11,369^[6]
2015	10,933^[7]

Surrounding area

Akita Station building "Topico [ja]" (department store near the west entrance)
Akita Northern Gate Square
Akitaekimae post office
AL☆Ve [ja] (shopping/hotel complex near the east entrance)
Kanto festival (five-minute walk from the west entrance)
Senshu park [ja]

Bus terminals

Long-distance buses

For Yokote Station, Jūmonji, Yuzawa Station^[8]
For Noshiro Station^[9]
Senshu; For Sendai Station (Miyagi)^[10]
Flora; For Shinjuku Station^[11]
Dream Akita/Yokohama; For Tokyo Station and Yokohama Station^[12]

References

^ "JR東日本：各駅情報(秋田駅)" [JR East: Station information (Akita Station)] (in Japanese). East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
^ 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 127. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2018年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2018)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2000年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2005年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2010年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2015年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2015)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 February 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 秋田中央交通高速バス湯沢-横手-秋田線のご案内. www.akita-chuoukotsu.co.jp (in Japanese). Akita Chuo Kotsu. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ 秋田中央交通公式サイト高速バス能代・秋田線のご案内. www.akita-chuoukotsu.co.jp (in Japanese). Akita Chuo Kotsu. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ "仙台－秋田（仙秋号）予約制 | 高速バス | JRバス東北【公式HP】｜高速バス仙台－新宿 3列シート車3000円～". www.jrbustohoku.co.jp (in Japanese). JR Bus Tohoku. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ フローラ号(秋田)｜高速バス｜小田急バス. www.odakyubus.co.jp (in Japanese). Odakyu City Bus. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
^ "秋田－東京・横浜（ドリーム秋田・横浜号）予約制 | 高速バス | JRバス東北【公式HP】｜高速バス仙台－新宿 3列シート車3000円～". www.jrbustohoku.co.jp (in Japanese). JR Bus Tohoku. Retrieved 2016-02-07.

External links

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JR East station information (in Japanese)

Stations of the Akita Shinkansen

For stations between Tokyo and Morioka, see Tōhoku Shinkansen

v t e Stations of the Ōu Main Line
Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka ~~Akaiwa~~ Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō
Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari
Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kariwano Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Izumi-Sotoasahikawa Tsuchizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

v t e Stations of the Oga Line
Akita Izumi-Sotoasahikawa Tsuchizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Detohama Kamifutada Futada Tennō Funakoshi Wakimoto Hadachi Oga

v t e Stations of the Uetsu Main Line
Niitsu Kyōgase Suibara Kamiyama Tsukioka Nakaura Shibata Kaji Kanazuka Nakajō Hirakida Sakamachi Hirabayashi Iwafunemachi Murakami Majima Echigo-Hayakawa Kuwagawa Imagawa Echigo-Kangawa Gatsugi Fuya Nezugaseki Koiwagawa Atsumi Onsen Iragawa Kobato Sanze Uzen-Mizusawa Uzen-Ōyama Tsuruoka Fujishima Nishibukuro Amarume Kita-Amarume Sagoshi Higashi-Sakata Sakata Mototate Minamichōkai Yuza Fukura Mega Kosagawa Kamihama Kisakata Konoura Nikaho Nishime Ugo-Honjō Ugo-Iwaya Oriwatari Ugo-Kameda Iwaki-Minato Michikawa Shimohama Katsurane Araya Ugo-Ushijima Akita

Stations of the Uetsu Main Line

v t e Transit in Akita Prefecture
JR East	Akita Shinkansen Gonō Line Hanawa Line Kitakami Line Oga Line Ōu Main Line Tazawako Line Uetsu Main Line
Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway	Akita Nairiku Line
Yuri Kōgen Railway	Chōkai Sanroku Line
Named trains	Akebono Inaho Komachi Nihonkai Resort Shirakami Tsugaru
Bus	Akita Chūō Kōtsū [tl] Shūhoku Bus [ja] Ugo Kōtsū [ja]
Public ferries	Shin Nihonkai Ferry
Misc	Akita Station Akita Airport Odate-Noshiro Airport Ports Akita Funagawa Noshiro
Japan transit: Tokyo Keihanshin Nagoya Fukuoka Hakone Fuji Izu Hokkaido Aomori Sendai Akita Niigata Toyama Nagano Okayama Hiroshima Shikoku Metro systems Shinkansen trams (list) aerial lifts (list)