Higashi-Omiya

Weekday departures: 265/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 160/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:42 / 24:14 (00:14 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (22)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 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:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Main Line: Hasuda ⇄ Toro (Saitama)

Higashi-Ōmiya Station opened on 20 March 1964 as an infill station between Ōmiya and Hasuda on the Tōhoku Main Line, originally planned under the name "Suna". When it opened, the surroundings were largely woodland and most trains passed without stopping. Population growth around the station from the 1980s brought both more passengers and more stopping trains. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 when Japanese National Railways was broken up. Suica became available on 18 November 2001. An elevator and escalators were installed inside the ticket gates in August 2011 and an elevator was added at the east exit in 2014, the west exit having received one in July 2002. From 13 March 2021, rapid services including Rabbit and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line rapids finally began stopping here after years of local lobbying.

Higashi-Ōmiya opened in 1964 surrounded by little more than secondary-growth woodland, and most trains ran straight through without stopping; only as the surrounding population grew from the 1980s did more services begin to call.