Saigata

Weekday departures: 18/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:38 / 22:27

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 11 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: Hokuhoku Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Shin'etsu Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Hokuhoku Line: Kubiki

Saigata Station opened on 13 May 1897 as a station of the privately owned Hokuetsu Railway, which was nationalized in August 1907. Parcel handling ended in March 1985, and with the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station joined JR East. On 22 March 1997 the Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line opened from Muikamachi to Saigata, making the station the line's northern terminus and a junction with the Shin'etsu Main Line; most Hokuhoku Line services run through onto the Shin'etsu Line to Naoetsu. The wooden station building on the north side of Platform 1 is the oldest surviving station building in Niigata Prefecture. The Midori no Madoguchi reservation office closed in September 2022.

The wooden building on the north side of Platform 1 is the oldest surviving station building of any railway station in Niigata Prefecture.