Omi-Shiotsu

Weekday departures: 68/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 68/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:37 / 23:41

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 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: Hokuriku Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Kosei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Kosei Line: Nagahara (Shiga)
• Hokuriku Line: Shin-Hikida ⇄ Yogo (Shiga)

Ōmi-Shiotsu Station opened on 1 October 1957 with the completion of the Hokuriku Main Line realignment between Kinomoto and Tsuruga, including the 5,170-metre Fukasaka Tunnel that bypassed the old Yanagase route. It became a junction with the Kosei Line when that route opened on 20 July 1974, prompting an expansion to two platforms and five tracks. Freight handling was withdrawn in 1960 and the station became unstaffed in 1984. JR West took over at privatisation in 1987. Through services from the Kyoto-area Special Rapid trains began in October 2006 with the conversion of the Tsuruga - Nagahama section to DC electrification, and a third platform — platform 0, reserved for heavy snow and other disruptions — was added in December 2021, giving three platforms and five tracks.

The station is the northernmost in Shiga Prefecture; the 5.2-kilometre track section toward Shin-Hikida is almost entirely inside the Fukasaka Tunnel, and snow sheds protect the junction switches against winter drift.