Tomobe

Weekday departures: 159/day · Sat & holiday departures: 152/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:48 / 24:34

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (12)

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

• JR Joban Line: Uchihara ⇄ Iwama
• JR Mito Line: Shishido

Tomobe Station opened on 1 July 1895 as a Mito Railway station, six years after the line's eastern end. The Tsuchiura Branch from Tsuchiura connected on 4 November 1895, finally putting the station on the through route between Tokyo and Mito. The route was nationalised in 1906 and absorbed into the Jōban Line in 1909. Limited-express "Hitachi" stops began on 2 October 1978. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operation to JR East and JR Freight. A new elevated station building entered service on 4 March 2007, when the departure melody changed to a Kyu Sakamoto song.

Tomobe takes its name from "Minami-Tomobe," a tiny hamlet within Shishidō Town when the station opened; the name eventually overtook Shishidō and became that of the merged 1955 municipality.