East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) will operate a special train titled the “10th Anniversary of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Opening / 15th Anniversary of the Full Tohoku Shinkansen Opening.”
The service will run on March 7, 2026, departing Ueno Station at 7:32 a.m. and arriving at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station at 12:31 p.m. En route, it will stop at Omiya, Utsunomiya, Koriyama, Fukushima, Sendai, Ichinoseki, Morioka, and Shin-Aomori stations.
Between Ueno and Morioka stations, passengers will be able to board, and at Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto stations, they will be able to disembark. The train will also stop at stations such as Utsunomiya, Koriyama, and Fukushima, where regular “Hayabusa” services bound for Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto do not normally stop. The train will use a 10-car E5 series Shinkansen set.
The special service will be sold exclusively as part of tour packages by travel agencies including Nippon Travel Agency, Club Tourism, Hankyu Travel International, Tobu Top Tours, T-LIFE Holdings, and JR East View Tourism & Sales.
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