Maibara

Weekday departures: 232/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 232/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:59 / 23:32

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (18)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 2 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: Tokaido Main Line, Hokuriku Line, Tokaido Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ohmi Railway Main Line: no timetable data
• Tokaido Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Ohmi Railway Main Line: Hikone
• Tokaido Main Line: Hikone
• Hokuriku Line: Sakata (Shiga)
• Tokaido Shinkansen: Gifu-Hashima ⇄ Kyoto
• Tokaido Main Line: Samegai

Maibara Station opened on 1 July 1889 as a Japanese Government Railway station at the junction of what became the Tōkaidō Main Line and the route to Nagahama, serving as a junction point from the day it opened. The Ohmi Railway began service from the station on 4 July 1931, and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen station opened on 1 October 1964. At the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the conventional lines passed to JR West and the Shinkansen to JR Central, making Maibara the boundary station between the two companies, which still use it jointly, JR West managing the conventional-line premises and JR Central the Shinkansen premises. A new overhead station building opened on 21 March 2009, its east–west free passageway completing barrier-free access, and station numbering (JR-A12 for the Biwako Line; CA83 for JR Central) was introduced in March 2018.

When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened in 1964, Maibara was a rarity among its stations in standing in a town rather than a city: the station then lay in Sakata District, Shiga Prefecture, in territory that is today part of the city of Maibara.