Higashi-Ōmiya Station
# Higashi-Ōmiya Station

Higashi-Ōmiya Station (東大宮駅, Higashi-Ōmiya-eki) is a passenger railway station on the Tōhoku Main Line located in Minuma-ku, Saitama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

## Lines

Higashi-Ōmiya Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and lies 35.4 kilometers from the starting point of the Tōhoku Main Line at Tokyo.

## Station layout

This station has an elevated station building, with a single ground-level island platform serving two tracks. The station is staffed.

### Platforms

| 1 | ■ Utsunomiya Line | for Oyama, Utsunomiya, Kuroiso |
| - | - | - |
| 2 | ■ Utsunomiya Line (Ueno-Tokyo Line) | for Ōmiya, Ueno, Tokyo, Yokohama, Atami, Numazu and Itō (via JT Tōkaidō Line and JT Itō Line) |
| 2 | ■ Shōnan–Shinjuku Line | for Ōmiya, Shinjuku, Yokohama, Ōfuna and Zushi (via JO Yokosuka Line) |

## History

The station opened on March 20, 1964. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 33,531 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

