Shin-Maebashi

Weekday departures: 17/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 17/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:32 / 23:17

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Joetsu Line: Gunma-Sōja ⇄ Ino (Gunma)

Shin-Maebashi Station opened on 1 July 1921 with the Jōetsu South Line's extension to Shibukawa, becoming the junction with the Ryōmō Line. The Jōetsu North and South lines were unified into the Jōetsu Line on 1 September 1931. On 20 December 1957 the Takasaki–Shin-Maebashi section of the Ryōmō Line was reassigned to the Jōetsu Line, and a depot — eventually the Takasaki Rolling Stock Centre — was sited here from April 1959. The elevated station building opened on 19 August 1983, and JR East took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. A major renovation finished on 26 March 2011.

Poet Sakutarō Hagiwara dedicated a piece in his Junjō Shōkyokushū to the just-opened Shin-Maebashi Station, describing it as a lonely country halt set among fields with its signal swaying in the wind.