| Komachi | |
| E3 series train | |
| Service type | Super Express |
| Operator | JR East |
| Line used | Tōhoku Shinkansen, Akita Shinkansen |
| Started | 1997 |
| Rolling stock | E3 Series |
Komachi (こまち?) is the sole service running on the Akita Shinkansen, using only E3 Series trains. The Akita Shinkansen (秋田新幹線 is a Mini-Shinkansen High-speed rail line on Honshū, the largest Island of Japan. The E3 Series Shinkansen are Japanese Shinkansen high-speed trains built for Komachi services coinciding with the opening of the new Between Tokyo and Morioka, it couples with a Tōhoku Shinkansen E2 Series train set. is a Train station located in the Marunouchi business district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, near the Imperial Palace grounds and the Morioka Station (盛岡駅 is a Railway station located in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Tōhoku Shinkansen (東北新幹線 is a high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo with Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture for a total length of 593 km Japan's The E2 Series Shinkansen are new trains built between 1995 and 2005 for Japan's Jōetsu, Tōhoku and Nagano Shinkansen high-speed dedicated rail lines After Morioka, the Komachi service continues along former narrow gauge tracks that have been converted to standard gauge. A narrow gauge railway (or narrow gauge railroad) is a Railway that has a Track gauge narrower than the of Standard gauge railways The standard gauge (also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a widely-used Rail gauge. Because it then runs on tracks that have grade crossings, its maximum speed from Morioka to Akita is 130 km/h, compared to 275 km/h on the Tōhoku Shinkansen. is a Railway station on the JR East. It is located in Akita, Akita, Japan.
The Komachi service was named after a famous poet from the area, Ono no Komachi, whose name (小町) is also synonymous with "belle" or "beauty" in Japanese. Ono no Komachi (小野 小町 or おののこまち (c 825 &mdash c