Shin-Maebashi Station

Shin-Maebashi Station^[a] (新前橋駅, Shin-Maebashi-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Shin-Maebashi Station 新前橋駅
Shin-Maebashi Station, 2018
General information
Location	Furuichi-machi 471, Maebashi-shi, Gunma-ken 371-0844 Japan
Coordinates	36°22′45″N 139°02′49″E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Ryōmō Line      Jōetsu Line      Agatsuma Line
Distance	84.4 kilometres (52.4 mi) from Oyama
Platforms	2 island platforms
Other information
Status	Staffed
History
Opened	1 July 1921; 104 years ago (1921-07-01)
Passengers
FY2021	4,804 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Takasaki towards Ueno Kusatsu Shibukawa towards Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi Ino towards Takasaki Jōetsu Line Gumma-Sōja towards Nagaoka Agatsuma Line Gumma-Sōja towards Ōmae Ryōmō Line Maebashi towards Oyama Ino towards Tokyo Takasaki Line Local Ryōmō Line through-service Maebashi Terminus Ino towards Odawara Shōnan–Shinjuku Line Rapid
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Lines

Shin-Maebashi Station is served by the Ryōmō Line, and is located 84.4 km (52.4 mi) from the terminus of the line at Oyama Station. It is also served by the Jōetsu Line and is 7.3 km (4.5 mi) from Takasaki Station. Trains of the Agatsuma Line, which nominally ends at Shibukawa, normally continue over the Jōetsu Line to terminate at Shin-Maebashi instead.

Station layout

Platforms at night, 2020

Shin-Maebashi Station has two island platforms serving four tracks, with the station building overhead. The station has many accessibility features such as escalators, elevators, mobility scooter access, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, and a braille fare table.^[1] The station also contains a train depot under the jurisdiction of the Takasaki Branch of JR East.

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  Platforms viewed from the station building January 2014
• 
  Ticket Gate October 2022
• 
  Platforms 1 and 2 October 2022
• 
  Platforms 3 and 4 October 2022
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  Takasaki Train Depot January 2014

Platforms^[2]

1 2	■ Jōetsu Line	for Takasaki
	JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Takasaki, Kumagaya, Shinjuku and Yokohama
	JU Takasaki Line via (Ueno-Tokyo Line)	for Takasaki, Kumagaya, Tokyo and Yokohama
3	■ Ryōmō Line	for Maebashi, Isesaki, Kiryū and Oyama
4	■ Jōetsu Line	for Shibukawa and Minakami
	■ Agatsuma Line	for Nakanojō and Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi

Station facilities

• NewDays [ja] Shin-Maebashi
• Restaurant

History

Shin-Maebashi Station was opened on 1 July 1921 to serve as a link between the newly opened Jōetsu Line and the Ryōmō Line. On 17 March 1987, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opens.^[3] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.^[4] In 2011, Shin-Maebashi station was renovated.

The station started accepting Suica cards on November 18, 2001 for Takasaki and Maebashi bound trains.^[5] On 16 October 2004, Suica cards were also accepted for Shibukawa bound trains.The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office was closed on 15 February 2023.^[6]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2021, the station was used by an average of 4,804 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[7]

Below is table containing the passenger statistics since the year 2000:

Passenger statistics
Year	Average Daily Boarding Passengers	Year	Average Daily Boarding Passengers	Year	Average Daily Boarding Passengers
2000	6,045[8]	2010	5,899[9]	2020	4,441[10]
2001	6,036[11]	2011	5,789[12]	2021	4,804[7]
2002	6,032[13]	2012	5,877[14]
2003	5,940[15]	2013	6,029[16]
2004	5,858[17]	2014	5,845[18]
2005	5,788[19]	2015	5,970[20]
2006	5,801[21]	2016	6,055[22]
2007	5,797[23]	2017	6,155[24]
2008	5,940[25]	2018	6,237[26]
2009	5,928[27]	2019	6,160[28]

Surrounding area

• Jōmō Shimbun head office
• Ueno Soja Shrine
• Sakutarō Hagiwara Poetry Monument
• Forest Mall Shin-Maebashi
• Gunma Prefectural Social Welfare Center
• Daiso
• Shin-Maebashi Terminal
• Maebashi Ishikura Post Office
• NHK Maebashi Office
• Kan-etsu Expressway
• National Route 17

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

Notes

1. Written as Shim-Maebashi by JR on the station signage