Mito (Ibaraki)

Weekday departures: 197/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 197/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:33 / 24:48 (00:48 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (15)

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:

• Kashima Rinkai Railway Oarai Kashima Line: no timetable data
• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• JR Suigun Line: no timetable data

• JR Joban Line: Katsuta ⇄ Akatsuka

Mito Station opened on 16 January 1889 as the terminus of the first-generation Mito Railway. The Ōta Railway (today's Suigun Line) opened its station here on 16 November 1897. The station was nationalised in 1906 and absorbed into the Jōban Line in 1909. Its second station building burned down on 20 May 1914, and the third was destroyed by an air raid on 2 August 1945; a fourth followed in 1946 and a reinforced-concrete fifth in 1956. The current sixth-generation bridge-type station building, straddling the at-grade platforms, entered service on 1 July 1984. JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the EXCEL station building had already opened on 24 March 1985.

During the Army Special Grand Manoeuvres held across Ibaraki in November 1929, Mito Station saw repeated arrivals and departures of the imperial train carrying Emperor Shōwa between 14 and 21 November.