Iiyama

Weekday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:32 / 22:00

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 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 complete: Hokuriku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Iiyama Line: no timetable data

• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Joetsu-Myoko ⇄ Nagano

Iiyama Station opened on 20 October 1921 as the terminus of the privately owned Iiyama Railway, after the line was completed from Toyono. Nationalisation on 1 June 1944 folded the company into the state-owned Iiyama Line; the station passed to the newly created Japanese National Railways in 1949 and to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. A relocated station building entered service on 9 November 2014, roughly 300 metres south of the original site, in preparation for Shinkansen service. The Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa opened on 14 March 2015, making Iiyama a Shinkansen stop, with 12 of the 15 daily Hakutaka round trips calling at the station.

The Shinkansen platforms use the folk song "Furusato" -- whose lyrics were written by Tatsuyuki Takano, born in nearby Nakano City -- as their departure melody, with platform 11 playing the first half and platform 12 the second.