Sanjo (Niigata)

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Sanjō Station opened on 16 June 1898 as a Hokuetsu Railway station in what is now Minami-Shimbo, Sanjō City, Niigata Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1907 and later became the Shin'etsu Main Line. Freight service ended on 1 October 1970, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and the station transferred to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office opened on 1 December 1990, automatic ticket gates and Suica IC card service began on 15 March 2008 when the Niigata suburban Suica area expanded, and the ticket window closed on 30 September 2022.

Although Sanjō and the limited-express stop Higashi-Sanjō Station both serve the city, the JTB timetable lists Higashi-Sanjō as the "representative station". Sanjō Station preserves an original lamp shed at the south end of platform 1, built in March 1912 and still standing.