Matsumoto

Weekday departures: 25/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 25/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:31 / 23:07

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 5 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 complete: Matsumoto Dentetsu Kamikochi Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Shinonoi Line: no timetable data
• Oito Line: no timetable data

• Matsumoto Dentetsu Kamikochi Line: Nishi-Matsumoto

Matsumoto Station opened on 15 June 1902 as the terminus of the government-built Shinonoi Line when it was extended from Nishijō, and became a through-station when the line reached Shiojiri on 15 December the same year. A private feeder from Chikuma Railway, the forerunner of Alpico Kōtsū's Kamikōchi Line, joined the station in October 1921. After a 1947 station fire and successive rebuilds, the property passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. Major works to the station building completed in September 2007 and to the public plaza in 2012. Station numbering SN 06 was introduced on the Shinonoi Line in February 2025, and Suica was extended into the station in stages between 2014 and March 2025.

From the mid-1980s until 16 November 2025, voice actress Toshiko Sawada's signature drawn-out "Matsumoto〜" arrival announcement played on the station's platforms, all of them except the Alpico Kōtsū platform 7; after public outcry the city secured non-commercial rights and from 1 May 2026 the recording plays on the east-west concourse three minutes after the scheduled arrival of each down Azusa and Shinano limited express.