Higashi-Maizuru

Weekday departures: 36/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:34 / 22:22

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only
• JR Maizuru Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Matsuoodera
• JR Maizuru Line: Nishi-Maizuru

Higashi-Maizuru Station opened on 3 November 1904 as Shin-Maizuru Station, with the opening of the government railway line Fukuchiyama–Ayabe–Shin-Maizuru, and was leased to the Hankaku Railway. The Hankaku Railway was nationalized in 1907, and the line was placed on the Maizuru Line in 1912. The Naka-Maizuru Line branched off and opened in 1919, and on 20 December 1922 the Obama Line was extended from Wakasa-Takahama to this station. It was renamed to its current name, Higashi-Maizuru, on 1 June 1939. The Naka-Maizuru Line was abolished on 1 November 1972, and the station passed to JR West with the division and privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987. Elevation work was completed on 13 July 1996, making it an elevated station with an island platform serving two tracks. It was also selected as one of the '100 Selected Stations of Kinki' in 2003. It is located at Hamamachi, Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, and is the terminus of both the Maizuru Line and the Obama Line, with the Maizuru limited express operating between it and Kyoto Station.

Before the war, as the gateway to the Maizuru Naval District — the only military base on the Sea of Japan coast — the station had a large building equipped with an imperial reception room because members of the imperial family visited frequently; after the war, repatriates from the Asian continent returned to their home regions via this station after landing at Maizuru Port.