Saigata

Weekday departures: 18/day · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:38 / 22:27

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Hokuhoku Line: Kubiki

Saigata Station opened on 13 May 1897 as a station of the privately owned Hokuetsu Railway, which was nationalized in August 1907. Parcel handling ended in March 1985, and with the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station joined JR East. On 22 March 1997 the Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line opened from Muikamachi to Saigata, making the station the line's northern terminus and a junction with the Shin'etsu Main Line; most Hokuhoku Line services run through onto the Shin'etsu Line to Naoetsu. The wooden station building on the north side of Platform 1 is the oldest surviving station building in Niigata Prefecture. The Midori no Madoguchi reservation office closed in September 2022.

The wooden building on the north side of Platform 1 is the oldest surviving station building of any railway station in Niigata Prefecture.