Tsuchiura

Weekday departures: 166/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 154/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:22 / 24:05 (00:05 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (16)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 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:

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

• JR Joban Line: Kandatsu ⇄ Arakawaoki

Tsuchiura Station opened on 4 November 1895 as a Nippon Railway stop in Ariake-chō, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. It became state-run in 1906 and joined the Jōban Line in 1909. From 17 April 1918 to 31 March 1987 it was the Tsuchiura end of the Tsukuba Railway. The famous "warship-style" second building opened in October 1936, and a third elevated station building completed on 17 February 1983 added an east entrance. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1987 JNR breakup. Limited expresses began stopping in October 1981 and Suica acceptance followed on 18 November 2001. The cycling-themed PLAYatré Tsuchiura station-building was rolled out in 2018–2020 with Hoshino Resorts' BEB5 cycling hotel.

The last of Tsuchiura's peddlers' stands — a rest that let the travelling vegetable sellers who worked the Jōban Line sit down without unshouldering their heavy loads — was removed from the platform in November 2021 and donated to the Railway Museum in Saitama.