Shinkansen · JR Hokkaido 北海道旅客鉄道 · 4 stations
Operator-wide facts from JR Hokkaido (Hokkaido Railway Company)'s own pages; individual lines and stations can differ.
IC cards work only inside JR Hokkaido's Kitaca area, not on the rest of the network. In the Kitaca area you can use Kitaca, Suica, PASMO, TOICA, manaca, ICOCA, PiTaPa, SUGOCA, nimoca and Hayakaken at the ticket gates. SAPICA (Sapporo's local card) is NOT accepted on JR. A trip must start and end inside one IC area: you cannot ride across areas on the card. The Kitaca area began around Sapporo; JR Hokkaido announced (September 2022) that 20 more stations would join in spring 2024: Hakodate area (Hakodate Main Line Hakodate–Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto: Hakodate, Goryōkaku, Kikyō, Ōnakayama, Nanae, Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto) and Asahikawa area (Hakodate Main Line Iwamizawa–Asahikawa: Minenobu to Asahikawa, 14 stations). The exact list of Sapporo-area stations and the actual start date of the expansion were not confirmed on the pages checked. Contactless credit card touch at gates: not confirmed. P
JR北海道Kitacaエリアでは、以下のICカードがお使いいただけます。※SAPICAはお使いいただけません。Many JR Hokkaido stations are unstaffed, and many staffed stations have hours without staff, so help with boarding may need to be arranged in advance: ask at a staffed station or use JR Hokkaido's online form for boarding assistance. Form enquiries are answered on weekdays 9:00–17:50 (not over New Year), so ask on a weekday before a weekend trip; wheelchair-space reservations by form can be made from one month to two days before travel. Telephone enquiries go to the JR Hokkaido telephone information centre (電話案内センター); its number was not shown on the pages checked.
Day passes, regional passes and special tickets that include this line, cheapest first. 1 of them are sold only to foreign visitors. Prices and rules change: check the official page before you buy.
大人の休日倶楽部パス（東日本・北海道） · JR East and JR Hokkaido
¥29,000 Ordinary car (station / ticket machine) · ¥28,000 Ordinary car (Ekinet) · ¥51,000 Green car (Ekinet only) ¥5,600/day
5 consecutive days. Up to 6 seat reservations included.
ジャパン・レール・パス · JR Group (JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku, JR Kyushu)
¥50,000 Ordinary, 7 days, adult (official web sales) · ¥25,000 Ordinary, 7 days, child 6–11 (official web sales) · ¥80,000 Ordinary, 14 days, adult (official web sales) · +21 more ¥7,143/day
7, 14 or 21 consecutive days from the start date you choose. Child = 6 to 11 years old at the time of use.
Valid only between the stations named; outside that stretch you pay the fare. Stretches marked “unofficial source” come from Wikipedia or travel sites, and “estimated from the official map” ones were read off the issuer's map image, not its text: check the official map before you buy.
This line runs through more than one IC card area. A journey on an IC card must start and end in the same area: across the boundary, buy a ticket.
2 stations are not in the IC areas we have; check at the station.
Sightseeing trains and services whose seats you reserve in advance.
はやぶさ・はやて · JR East
Tokyo – Shin-Aomori on the Tohoku Shinkansen, continuing to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto on the Hokkaido Shinkansen
In order along the main route; branch stations, if any, are listed at the end. English names and readings where OpenStreetMap has them.
| # | Station | English | Passengers / day (2024) | Guide / other lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 新函館北斗 🗣 | Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto | 1,494 | Hakodate Main Line |
| 2 | 木古内 🗣 | Kikonai | 192 | South Hokkaido Railway Line, Kaikyō Line |
| 3 | 奥津軽いまべつ おくつがるいまべつ 🗣 | Okutsugaru-imabetsu | 40 | |
| 4 | 新青森 🗣 | Shin-Aomori | 9,564 | JR Ou Line, Tohoku Shinkansen |
Passengers per day: people boarding and getting off on an average day, all operators at the station counted once each (MLIT station passenger data S12).
Lines and stations: 「国土数値情報（鉄道データ、駅別乗降客数データ）」（国土交通省）を加工して作成 (MLIT National Land Numerical Information, railway data N02-24 and station passengers S12-25, CC BY 4.0). English station names and readings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), where they match. Data & credits.