Utsunomiya

Weekday departures: 220/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 184/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:37 / 23:15

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (17)

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 3 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: Tohoku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• JR Nikko Line: no timetable data

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Nasushiobara ⇄ Oyama (Tochigi)
• Tohoku Main Line: Okamoto (Tochigi) ⇄ Suzumenomiya

Utsunomiya Station opened on 16 July 1885 as a station on the Nippon Railway's second-district line and was for a time its northern terminus, with passengers crossing the unfinished Tone River bridge by ferry until the span was completed the following year. On 1 June 1890 Nippon Railway opened the branch to Nikko from here. Following nationalisation in 1906, the routes were designated the Tohoku and Nikko lines. The Tohoku Shinkansen platforms opened on 23 June 1982, and the station passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1987 privatisation. The Utsunomiya Light Rail terminus opened east of the station in 2023.

Japan's first widely sold ekiben — two rice balls with a pickled-radish garnish — is traditionally credited to Utsunomiya Station's platform vendors.