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Hanamaki Station is a railway station on the Tohoku Main Line in Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).LinesHanamaki Station is served by the Tohoku Main Line and the Kamaishi Line. It is located 500.0 kilometers from the starting point of the Tohoku Main Line at Tokyo Station, and is a terminus for the Kamaishi Line. Hanamaki Station is not a stop of the Tohoku Shinkansen. The nearest Shinkansen stations are Shin-Hanamaki Station (6.4 km via the Kamaishi Line) and Kitakami Station (12.5 km via the Tohoku Main Line).Station layoutHanamaki Station has an island platform and a single side platform serving three tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.PlatformsHistoryHanamaki Station opened on 1 November 1890. The (the forerunner of the Kamaishi Line) established its terminus at Hanamaki on 25 October 1913. The two stations were amalgamated on 20 September 1943. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.The station building was renovated in 2014 with a style evoking the early 20th-century Taisho period portrayed in works by author Kenji Miyazawa, with work completed on 21 September 2014.