Urawa

Weekday departures: 903/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 442/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:37 / 24:42 (00:42 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (71)

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:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Main Line: Kita-Urawa ⇄ Minami-Urawa

Urawa Station opened on 28 July 1883 as part of Nippon Railway's pioneering Ueno-to-Kumagaya route — one of just six original stops on what is today's Tōhoku Main Line and Takasaki Line. It is the oldest station in present-day Saitama City, predating Ōmiya. The line was nationalised in 1906 and incorporated into the Tōhoku Main Line in 1909. A second station building opened in 1929, and an east entrance was added in 1930. Successive widenings — to four tracks in 1931 and six in 1968 — were followed by full elevation of the station, completed in March 2013, which produced today's three elevated island platforms serving six tracks and allowed the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line to call here from 16 March 2013. Privatisation transferred it to JR East on 1 April 1987.

Despite Saitama Prefecture's railway nucleus being at Ōmiya, Urawa remains the prefecture and city's nominal representative station in timetables because the prefectural and city governments cluster around it.