Numata

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last departure (weekday): 7:10 / 23:55

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Joetsu Line: Gokan ⇄ Iwamoto

Numata Station opened on 31 March 1924 as a station on the Jōetsu Line. Parcel handling ended in stages in 1984–85, and the station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation following the dissolution of the Japanese National Railways. Automatic ticket gates were introduced on 21 February 2006, and on 14 March 2009, with the expansion of the Tokyo metropolitan area, Suica IC service became available here. The station moved to contracted operation on 1 November 2019, with management transferred to Minakami Station. The dedicated ticket office (Midori-no-madoguchi) closed on 30 November 2022. As the principal station for the city of Numata, it sits at the western foot of the river terrace formed by the Tone and Katashina rivers and serves as a gateway to Fukiware Falls, Oigami Onsen and Oze.

Before the Jōetsu Line reached Numata, a horsecar and later electric tramway operated by Tone Kidō — eventually absorbed by Tokyo Dentō as its Tone Line — linked Shibukawa to Numata's town centre from 1911 until the 1924 station opening.