Shinjo

Naruko-Onsen – Shinjo: suspended from 25 July 2024 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: JR Rikuu East Line →

Weekday departures: 9/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 9/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:40 / 19:57

Busiest hour in the available data: 5:00–6:00 (1)

0:00 ─ 23:00

These are typical departures in the timetable data (see the date below), not a live count: they may include services affected by the notice above.

Timetable data as of 17 April 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:

• Ou Line: no timetable data
• Rikuu West Line: no timetable data

• Ou Line: Oishida

Shinjō Station opened on 11 June 1903 as the terminus of the Government Railways' Ōu Southern Line, becoming an intermediate station when the line was extended to Innai the following year. The Sakata Line (later Rikuu West Line) reached the station in 1913 and the Shinjō Line (later Rikuu East Line) in 1915. Following the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, Shinjō came under the control of JR East. On 4 December 1999, the station became the northern terminus of the Yamagata Shinkansen, opened in conjunction with the standard-gauge conversion of the Ōu Main Line as far north as Shinjō; the present building was completed at the same time.

Shinjō was selected as one of the Tōhoku Top 100 Stations in 2002 as a "futuristically designed station". A steam-locomotive turntable is still preserved in working condition at the adjacent Shinjō depot, and the Rikuu East Line occasionally hosts heritage SL excursions departing from the station.