Ōmiya Station (Saitama)

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West entrance of Omiya Station

East entrance of Omiya Station

Interior of Omiya Station

Ōmiya Station (Japanese: 大宮駅 Ōmiya Eki) is a railway station located in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Saitama Prefecture and one of the hub stations in the Greater Tokyo Area for the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) as well as the most important gateway from Tokyo to the Tōhoku and Hokuriku regions along with Niigata and Nagano Prefectures.

The following railways connect through the station:

Local and late night buses and intercity motorcoaches including ones to Narita International Airport and almost domestic Haneda Tokyo International Airport also depart from this station. The latter often get caught in traffic jams, therefore train trips involving Tokyo Monorail from Tennozu Isle or Keihin Electric Express Railway from Shinagawa are the more reliable options to Haneda.

1 History
2 Station Layout
- 2.1 JR East Platforms
- 2.2 Tobu Platforms
3 Adjacent stations
4 Railway Facilities
5 See also

[edit] History

On 16 March 1885 it was opened as a station of Nippon Tetsudō (lit. Japan Railway) company.

In 1894 a railway workshop was opened near the station.

[edit] Station Layout

[edit] JR East Platforms

[edit] No. 1 - 11

These are five ground-level island platforms.

1・2	■Keihin-Tohoku Line	Ueno ・ Tokyo ・ Shinagawa ・ Yokohama ・(Negishi Line) Ōfuna
3・4	■Utsunomiya Line	Akabane ・ Ueno
3・4	■Shonan-Shinjuku Line (Through service for Yokosuka Line)	Shinjuku ・ Yokohama ・ Ōfuna ・ Zushi
6	■Takasaki Line	Akabane ・ Ueno
6	■Shonan-Shinjuku Line (Through service for Tokaido Line)	Shinjuku ・ Yokohama ・ Hiratsuka ・ Odawara
7	■Utsunomiya Line (seldom)	Oyama ・ Utsunomiya ・ Kuroiso
	■Takasaki Line (Up)	Akabane ・ Ueno
	■Takasaki Line (Down, seldom)	Kumagaya ・ Takasaki ・ Maebashi
	■Shonan-Shinjuku Line (Through service for Tokaido Line)	Shinjuku ・ Yokohama ・ Hiratsuka ・ Odawara
	■Airport Ltd. Exp. "Narita Express"	Narita Airport
8	■Takasaki Line	Kumagaya ・ Takasaki ・ Maebashi
9	■Utsunomiya Line	Oyama ・ Utsunomiya ・ Kuroiso
11	■Ltd. Exp. "Nikkō", "Spacia" (through service for Tobu Nikko Line)	Tochigi ・ Tōbu Nikko

[edit] No. 13 - 18

These are three 3F island platforms.

13・14	■Shinkansen	Ueno ・ Tokyo
15	■Shinkansen (partly)	Ueno ・ Tokyo
16	■Tohoku Shinkansen (part of "Nasuno" and "Yamabiko")	Utsunomiya ・ Kōriyama ・ Sendai ・ Morioka ・ Hachinohe
17	■Tohoku Shinkansen	Utsunomiya ・ Kōriyama ・ Sendai ・ Morioka ・ Hachinohe
	■Yamagata Shinkansen (Tsubasa)	Utsunomiya ・ Kōriyama ・ Yamagata ・ Shinjō
	■Akita Shinkansen (Komachi)	Sendai ・ Morioka ・ Akita
18	■Joetsu Shinkansen (Toki and Tanigawa)	Takasaki ・ Echigo-Yuzawa ・ Nagaoka ・ Niigata

[edit] No. 19 - 22

These are two underground island platforms.

19・20・22	■Saikyo Line	Ikebukuro ・ Shinjuku ・ Ōsaki ・ (Rinkai Line) Shin-Kiba
21・22	■Kawagoe Line	Kawagoe ・ Komagawa

[edit] Tobu Platforms

These platforms are bay platforms.

1・2

■Noda Line

Ōmiya-kōen ・ Wakatsuki ・ Kasukabe
・ Nodashi ・ Kashiwa ・ Funabashi

[edit] Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
East Japan Railway Company
Ueno	Tōhoku Shinkansen	Oyama
Ueno	Jōetsu Shinkansen	Kumagaya
Ueno	Nagano Shinkansen	Kumagaya
Saitama-Shintoshin	Utsunomiya Line	Miyahara
Urawa	Rapid RABBIT	Hasuda
Urawa	Commuter Rapid	Kuki
Saitama-Shintoshin	Takasaki Line	Miyahara
Urawa	Rapid URBAN	Ageo
Urawa	Commuter Rapid	Kōnosu Ageo
	Shonan-Shinjuku Line
Toro	Local (Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line)	Akabane
Hasuda	Rapid (Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line)	Akabane
Miyahara	Rapid (Takasaki Line - Tōkaido Main Line)	Akabane
Ageo	Special Rapid (Takasaki Line - Tōkaido Main Line)	Akabane
Terminus	Keihin-Tohoku Line	Saitama-Shintoshin
Kita-Yono	Saikyo Line / Kawagoe Line	Nisshin
Yono-Honchō	Rapid	Nisshin
Musashi-Urawa	Commuter Rapid	Nisshin
Tobu Railway
Terminus	Noda Line	Kita-Ōmiya
Saitama New Urban Transit
Terminus	Ina Line	Ōnari

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Stations of the JR Tōhoku Shinkansen Line

Tokyo - Ueno - Ōmiya - Oyama - Utsunomiya - Nasushiobara - Shin-Shirakawa - Kōriyama - Fukushima - Shiroishi-Zaō - Sendai - Furukawa - Kurikoma-Kōgen - Ichinoseki - Mizusawa-Esashi - Kitakami - Shin-Hanamaki - Morioka - Iwate-Numakunai - Ninohe - Hachinohe

	Yamagata Shinkansen split begins at Fukushima
	Akita Shinkansen split begins at Morioka

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Stations of the JR Jōetsu Shinkansen Line

Tokyo - Ueno - Ōmiya - Kumagaya - Honjō-Waseda - Takasaki - Jōmō-Kōgen - Echigo-Yuzawa - Urasa - Nagaoka - Tsubame-Sanjō - Niigata

Nagano Shinkansen split begins at Takasaki

Stations of the JR Tōhoku Main Line

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Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)

Ueno - Oku - Akabane - Urawa- Saitama-Shintoshin - Ōmiya - Toro - Higashi-Ōmiya - Hasuda - Shiraoka - Shin-Shiraoka - Kuki - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kurihashi - Koga - Nogi - Mamada - Oyama - Koganei - Jichi-idai - Ishibashi - Suzumenomiya - Utsunomiya - Okamoto - Hōshyakuji - Ujiie - Kamasusaka - Kataoka - Yaita - Nozaki - Nishi-Nasuno - Nasu-Shiobara - Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka

Kuroiso - Takaku - Kurodahara - Toyohara - Shirasaka - Shin-Shirakawa - Shirakawa - Kutano - Izumizaki - Yabuki - Kagamiishi - Sukagawa - Asaka-Nagamori - Kōriyama - Hiwada - Gohyakugawa - Motomiya - Sugita - Nihonmatsu - Adachi - Matsukawa - Kanayagawa - Minami-Fukushima - Fukushima - Higashi-Fukushima - Date - Kōri - Fujita - Kaida - Kosugō - Shiroishi - Higashi-Shiroishi - Kita-Shirakawa - Ōgawara - Funaoka - Tsukinoki - Iwanuma - Tatekoshi - Natori - Minami-Sendai - Nagamachi - Sendai - Higashi-Sendai - Iwakiri - (Shin Rifu - Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō - Kokufu-Tagajō - Shiogama - Matsushima - Atago - Shinainuma - Kashimadai - Matsuyama-Machi - Kogota - Tajiri - Semine - Umegasawa - Nitta - Ishikoshi - Yushima - Hanaizumi - Shimizuhara - Arikabe - Ichinoseki - Yamanome - Hiraizumi - Maesawa - Rikuchū-Orii - Mizusawa - Kanegasaki - Rokuhara - Kitakami - Murasakino - Hanamaki - Hanamaki Airport - Ishidoriya - Hizume - Shiwachūō - Furudate - Yahaba - Iwate-Iioka - Senbokuchō - Morioka

Morioka to Hachinohe
via Tōhoku Shinkansen, Aoimori Railway Line or Iwate Ginga Railway Line

Hachinohe to Aomori

Hachinohe - Mutsu-Ichikawa - Shimoda - Mukaiyama - Misawa - Kogawara - Kamikita-Chō - Ottomo - Chibiki - Noheji - Karibasawa - Shimizugawa - Kominato - Nishi-Hiranai - Asamushi-Onsen - Nonai - Yadamae - Koyanagi - Higashi-Aomori - Aomori

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Stations of the Takasaki Line

(Tohoku Main Line(Utsunomiya Line) Ueno>>)- Ōmiya - Miyahara - Ageo - Kita-Ageo - Okegawa - Kitamoto - Kōnosu - Kita-Kōnosu - Fukiage - Gyōda - Kumagaya - Kagohara - Fukaya - Okabe - Honjō - Jinbohara - Shinmachi - Kuragano - Takasaki

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Stations of the Shonan-Shinjuku Line

--- Takasaki Line - Tokaido Main Line ---
Maebashi - Shin-Maebashi - Ino - Takasaki-Ton-yamachi - Takasaki - Kuragano - Shinmachi - Jinbohara - Saitama - Okabe - Fukaya - Kagohara - Kumagaya - Gyōda - Fukiage - Kita-Kōnosu - Kōnosu - Kitamoto - Okegawa - Kita-Ageo - Ageo - Miyahara - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Yokohama - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Fujisawa - Tsujidō - Chigasaki - Hiratsuka - Ōiso - Ninomiya - Kōzu - Kamonomiya - Odawara

--- Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line ---
Utsunomiya - Suzumenomiya - Ishibashi - Jichi-Idai - Koganei - Tochigi - Mamada - Nogi - Koga - Kurihashi - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kuki - Shin-Shiraoka - Shiraoka - Hasuda - Higashi-Ōmiya - Toro - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Nishi-Ōi - Shin-Kawasaki - Yokohama - Hodogaya - Higashi-Totsuka - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Kita-Kamakura - Kamakura - Zushi

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Stations of the Saikyo Line / Kawagoe Line

(Towards Shin-Kiba >>) Ōsaki - Ebisu - Shibuya - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro - Itabashi - Jūjō - Akabane - Kita-Akabane - Ukimafunado - Todakoen - Toda - Kita-Toda - Musashi-Urawa - Naka-Urawa - Minami-Yono - Yonohonmachi - Kita-Yono - Ōmiya - Nisshin - Sashiōgi - Minami-Furuya - Kawagoe