Hitachi

Weekday departures: 110/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 108/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:39 / 24:07 (00:07 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (11)

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:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Ogitsu ⇄ Hitachi-Taga

Hitachi Station opened on 25 February 1897 as Sukegawa Station on the privately-owned Nippon Railway. It became state-owned with the 1906 nationalisation and joined the newly named Jōban Line in 1909. The 1 September 1939 merger that formed the modern city of Hitachi prompted the station's rename to Hitachi on 20 October 1939. JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation transferred it to JR East and JR Freight. Suica was activated on 16 October 2004 (Mito side only) and extended further north on 15 March 2008. An elevated station building designed under architect Kazuyo Sejima opened on 7 April 2011 and won the Brunel Award for stations in 2014, gaining the station its "station with a view of the sea" nickname.

From 1908 until 31 May 1960 the privately-owned Hitachi Mine electric railway connected the station to the Hitachi copper mine, hauling sulphuric acid produced by the local smelter for outbound shipping along with passenger traffic.