Tsubame-Sanjo

Weekday departures: 43/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:24 / 23:13

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (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.

• Jōetsu Shinkansen: Niigata ⇄ Nagaoka

Tsubame-Sanjō Station opened on 1982-11-15 with the launch of the Jōetsu Shinkansen between Ōmiya and Niigata. It is located 293.8 kilometres from Tokyo and sits directly on the boundary between the cities of Sanjō and Tsubame, with the station headquarters on the Sanjō side. The Jōetsu Shinkansen platforms — one island and one side, elevated — sit above a single ground-level Yahiko Line side platform, with the station building wedged between the two levels. Suica is accepted. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 28 February 2023 and a talking reserved-seat ticket machine was introduced from 1 March 2023. JR East took over from JNR on 1987-04-01.

Via the Yahiko Line, the station provides access to Yahiko Shrine, the ichinomiya of ancient Echigo Province.