Takasaki

Weekday departures: 175/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 182/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:28 / 23:07

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: Joetsu Shinkansen, Joetsu Line, Hokuriku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Joshin Line: no timetable data
• Takasaki Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• Shin'etsu Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Takasaki Line: Kuragano ⇄ Kumagaya
• Joetsu Shinkansen: Jomo-Kogen ⇄ Honjo-Waseda
• Joetsu Line: Takasaki-Tonyamachi
• Shin'etsu Line: Nagaoka ⇄ Nagano
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Annaka-Haruna

Takasaki Station is a major junction on the JR East, JR Freight and Jōshin Dentetsu networks in Yashima-chō, Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, and is the largest terminus in Gunma. It opened on 1 May 1884 as a Nippon Railway station when the Shimmachi–Takasaki section entered service, and the line was extended on to Maebashi on 20 August the same year; the government-built line to Yokokawa (today's Shin'etsu Main Line) opened on 15 October 1885. The Kōzuke Railway (now the Jōshin Line) opened as far as Fukushima Station (now Jōshū-Fukushima) on 10 May 1897. Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and new station buildings were erected in 1900 and again in July 1917. The east entrance opened on 18 November 1946, and a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office followed on 1 October 1965. The station is the starting point of the Hokuriku Shinkansen and a stop on the Jōetsu Shinkansen; in total it hosts nine lines spanning conventional and high-speed services.

About 4 km north of the station is the junction between the Jōetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen, equipped with Japan's largest No. 38 swing-nose turnout — wholly Japanese-made and capable of 160 km/h on the diverging Nagano side and over 240 km/h on the straight Niigata side. Since 3 July 2021 the Shinkansen platforms have used departure melodies arranged from songs by Takasaki-born guitarist Hotei Tomoyasu; they were planned jointly by Gunma Prefecture and JR East's Takasaki Branch after Hotei wrote the theme song for the G Messe Gunma convention centre and worked on collaborations with the prefectural mascot Gunma-chan.