Tsubame-Sanjo

Weekday departures: 43/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:24 / 23:13

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

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 complete: Joetsu Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yahiko Line: no timetable data

• Joetsu Shinkansen: Niigata ⇄ Nagaoka

Tsubame-Sanjō Station opened on 15 November 1982 with the launch of the Jōetsu Shinkansen between Ōmiya and Niigata. It is located 293.8 kilometres from Tokyo and sits directly on the boundary between the cities of Sanjō and Tsubame, with the station headquarters on the Sanjō side. The Jōetsu Shinkansen platforms — one island and one side, elevated — sit above a single ground-level Yahiko Line side platform, with the station building wedged between the two levels. Suica is accepted. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 28 February 2023 and a talking reserved-seat ticket machine was introduced from 1 March 2023. JR East took over from JNR on 1 April 1987.

Via the Yahiko Line, the station provides access to Yahiko Shrine, the ichinomiya of ancient Echigo Province.