Muikamachi

Weekday departures: 51/day · Sat & holiday departures: 53/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:12 / 23:34

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 to 11 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Joetsu Line: Itsukamachi ⇄ Shiozawa
• Hokuhoku Line: Uonuma-Kyuryo

Muikamachi Station opened on 18 November 1923 as a general (passenger and freight) station of the Government Railways' Jōetsu Northern Line (later the Jōetsu Line), when the Urasa–Shiozawa section opened. Car-load freight handling ended in 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR East. The present station building was completed on 18 December 1996, and the Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line opened on 22 March 1997 with Muikamachi as its starting point (Hokuhoku Line trains continue on the Jōetsu Line as far as Echigo-Yuzawa). The limited express "Hakutaka" was abolished with the opening of the Nagano–Kanazawa section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen on 14 March 2015, ending limited-express service at Muikamachi.

Since 18 April 2017, a freight-passenger combined service has run between Muikamachi and Uragawara stations on the Hokuhoku Line, jointly arranged by Hokuetsu Express and Sagawa Express the previous year.