Shin-Hikida

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:30 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Hokuriku Line: Tsuruga ⇄ Omi-Shiotsu

Shin-Hikida Station opened on 1 October 1957 as part of a route realignment between Kinomoto and Tsuruga on the Hokuriku Main Line under Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended in 1960 and the station became unstaffed in 1971. The line was doubled in stages: the Kinukake tunnel loop opened on 1 October 1963, allowing the Hatohara signal station to be closed, and the section from the Kutsukake signal station to Shin-Hikida was doubled on 30 November 1966, closing that signal station in turn. Following JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. A new log-house style station building opened on 11 October 2006, timed to the DC electrification of the Nagahama–Tsuruga section later that month, which extended JR West's Special Rapid services to Tsuruga and made Shin-Hikida a stop for them. Station numbering JR-A02 / JR-B09 was introduced in March 2018, and ICOCA acceptance began that September.

When the line was being built, the landowner of 30 peach trees inside the planned station footprint demanded 50,000 yen per tree, and the dispute briefly threatened to delay the 1957 opening.