Omiya (Saitama)

Weekday departures: 1,085/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 783/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:28 / 24:15 (00:15 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (89)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 3 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: Joetsu Shinkansen, Tohoku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ina Line by New Shuttle: no timetable data
• Takasaki Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• Kawagoe Line: no timetable data
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tobu Urban Park Line: no timetable data

• Takasaki Line: Kumagaya
• Joetsu Shinkansen: Kumagaya
• Tohoku Shinkansen: Oyama (Tochigi)
• Tohoku Main Line: Toro (Saitama) ⇄ Saitama-Shintoshin ⇄ Kita-Yono

Ōmiya Station opened on 16 March 1885 as a Nippon Railway stop. Local residents, led by future Ōmiya town mayor Shirai Sukeshichi, donated land for the station after the original Ueno - Kumagaya line bypassed the area in 1883. A railway workshop was added north of the station in 1894, beginning Ōmiya's identity as a "railway town." The Tōhoku and Jōetsu Shinkansen arrived in 1982, followed by the New Shuttle in 1983 and the Saikyō Line opening and Kawagoe Line electrification in 1985. JR East, Tōbu Railway, and Saitama New Urban Transit jointly operate the site today, which serves six Shinkansen routes and ranks second in Japan only to Tokyo for line count.

Shirai Sukeshichi, the donor of the land that became Ōmiya Station, is commemorated by a bust set up in Kanetsuka Park in front of Ōmiya Sonic City in 2002, and in nearby Yamamaru Park by a memorial monument and a preserved steam locomotive (C12 No. 29).