Saitama-Shintoshin

Weekday departures: 835/day · Sat & holiday departures: 408/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:30 / 24:49

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (64)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tōhoku Main Line: Omiya (Saitama) ⇄ Yono

Saitama-Shintoshin Station opened on 1 April 2000, just over a month before the 5 May opening of the surrounding Saitama New Urban Center business district. Construction began in February 1997, and the building was designed by Saitama-born architect Edward Suzuki together with JR East's design office, using an elliptical tube section to span an 80-metre east-west concourse without intermediate columns. The station won a Good Design Award in October 2000 and a Sai-no-Kuni Saitama landscape prize in February 2001. Suica was introduced in November 2001. Platform edge doors entered service on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line platforms on 23 September 2017, making this the first Saitama JR station to receive them. Operation has remained with JR East throughout.

Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and Musashino-Line through trains do not stop here because the freight tracks they use bypass the station to the west and have no platform.