Sawa (Ibaraki)

Weekday departures: 70/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 70/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:20 / 23:48

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (9)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 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 incomplete:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Tokai ⇄ Katsuta

Sawa Station opened on 25 February 1897 in what is now Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the route that is today the Joban Line. Operation passed to JR East upon the 1 April 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. The station is 125.3 km from the line origin at Nippori and is staffed, with two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. Sawa serves as a local commuter stop for Hitachinaka and its surrounding districts, with adjacent points of interest including Kasamatsu Stadium and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force base at Camp Katsuta.