Shinjo

Weekday departures: 9/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 9/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:40 / 19:57

Busiest hour: 5:00–6:00 (1)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Ōu Line: Oishida

Shinjō Station opened on 11 June 1903 as the terminus of the Government Railways' Ōu Southern Line, becoming an intermediate station when the line was extended to Innai the following year. The Sakata Line (later Rikuu West Line) reached the station in 1913 and the Shinjō Line (later Rikuu East Line) in 1915. Following the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, Shinjō came under the control of JR East. On 4 December 1999, the station became the northern terminus of the Yamagata Shinkansen, opened in conjunction with the standard-gauge conversion of the Ōu Main Line as far north as Shinjō; the present building was completed at the same time.

Shinjō was selected as one of the Tōhoku Top 100 Stations in 2002 as a "futuristically designed station". A steam-locomotive turntable is still preserved in working condition at the adjacent Shinjō depot, and the Rikuu East Line occasionally hosts heritage SL excursions departing from the station.