Matsudai

Weekday departures: 36/day · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:39 / 23:18

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 11 May 2026.

• Hokuhoku Line: Hokuhoku-Oshima ⇄ Tokamachi

Matsudai Station opened on 22 March 1997, the day the Hokuhoku Line itself opened end-to-end between Muikamachi and Saigata. Operated by the third-sector Hokuetsu Express, the station sits in the Matsudai district of Tōkamachi, Niigata and is 29.2 kilometers from the line's starting point at Muikamachi. The station name was rendered in hiragana to read more approachably and to avoid clashing with the then-extant Matsushiro Station (松代) on the Nagano Electric Railway Yashiro Line. The station shares its building with the Matsudai Furusato Kaikan michi-no-eki and serves as a tourism gateway for the Matsunoyama area.

When a train passes through the station, it sounds the same melody used by JR West's Yonago branch.