Tokamachi

Weekday departures: 36/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:29 / 23:07

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (4)

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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.

• Hokuhoku Line: Shinza ⇄ Matsudai

Tōkamachi Station opened on 15 November 1927 as part of the Tōkamachi Line between Echigo-Iwasawa and Tōkamachi. After the Iiyama Railway extended from Echigo-Tazawa in 1929 the route was fully connected, and in 1944 the Iiyama Railway was nationalized and the lines merged into today's Iiyama Line. With the 1987 JNR privatization the station passed to JR East, and on 22 March 1997 a Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line station opened alongside, making Tōkamachi an interchange. JR-side facilities were renewed in 2014, and a Hokuhoku-side extension followed in 2015 after the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Kanazawa.

The station's Hokuetsu Express section is the only stop on the Hokuhoku Line where the operator stations its own staff, with kippu sales, a soba stand and a Tōkamachi tourist office on the second floor.