Tomobe

Weekday departures: 159/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 152/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:48 / 24:34 (00:34 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (12)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 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: JR Mito Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• JR Joban Line: Uchihara ⇄ Iwama
• JR Mito Line: Shishido

Tomobe Station opened on 1 July 1895 as a station on Nippon Railway's Mito Line, about six years after that line first opened. On 4 November 1895 the same company's Tsuchiura Line was completed from Tsuchiura to the station, finally putting it on the through route toward Tokyo. The railway was nationalised in 1906 and the station was assigned to the Jōban Line in 1909. Some limited-express "Hitachi" services began stopping on 2 October 1978. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operation to JR East and JR Freight. A new elevated station building entered service on 4 March 2007, when the departure melody changed to a Kyu Sakamoto song.

Tomobe takes its name from "Minami-Tomobe," a tiny hamlet within Shishidō Town when the station opened; the name eventually overtook Shishidō and became that of the merged 1955 municipality.