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'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 one of the main gateways from Greater Tokyo to the Tōhoku and Hokuriku regions along with Niigata and northern Nagano Prefectures
The following railways connect through the station:

★ East Japan Railway Company (JR East)

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★ Tōhoku Shinkansen

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★ Akita Shinkansen

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★ Yamagata Shinkansen

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★ Jōetsu Shinkansen

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★ Nagano Shinkansen

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★ Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)

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★ Takasaki Line

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★ Shōnan-Shinjuku Line

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★ Keihin-Tōhoku Line

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★ Saikyō Line

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★ Kawagoe Line

★ Tōbu Railway

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★ Noda Line

★ Saitama New Urban Transit

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★ Ina Line (New Shuttle)
Local and late night buses and intercity motorcoaches including ones to Narita International Airport [1] and almost domestic Haneda Tokyo International Airport [2] also depart from this station. The latter sometimes suffer from delays from traffic jams ^[1]. Train trips involving Tokyo Monorail from Hamamatsuchō or Tennōzu Isle, and Keihin Electric Express Railway from Shinagawa are the alternatives to Haneda.

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History

Station layout

JR East platforms

No. 1 - 11

No. 13 - 18

No. 19 - 22

Tōbu platforms

Adjacent stations

Railway facilities

See also

History

On 16 March 1885 it was opened as a station of ''Nippon Tetsudō'' (日本鉄道 lit. Japan Railway) company.
In 1894, a railway workshop was opened near the station.

Station layout

JR East platforms

No. 1 - 11

These are five ground-level island platforms.
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{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Tōkaidō Main Line)|linecol=#E21F26|dir=Shinjuku ・ Yokohama ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|pfn=7|span=5|nolinkindex=Utsunomiya Line (seldom)|linecol=orange|dir= ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Takasaki Line (Down, seldom)|linecol=orange|dir= ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Tōkaido Main Line)|linecol=#E21F26|dir=Shinjuku ・ Yokohama ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Airport Ltd. Exp. "''Narita Express''"|linecol=violet|dir=
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=11|nolinkindex=Ltd. Exp. "''Nikkō''", "''Spacia''"
(through service for Tobu Nikkō Line)|first=3|linecol=orange|dir= ・

No. 13 - 18

These are three 3F island platforms.
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=16|nolinkindex=Tōhoku Shinkansen
(part of "''Nasuno''" and "''Yamabiko''")|linecol=green|dir=Utsunomiya ・ ・ ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Yamagata Shinkansen
(''Tsubasa'')|linecol=gray|dir=Utsunomiya ・ Kōriyama ・ ・
{{ja-rail-linem|nolinkindex=Akita Shinkansen
(''Komachi'')|linecol=deeppink|dir=Sendai ・ Morioka ・
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=18|first=3|nolinkindex=Jōetsu Shinkansen
(''Toki'' and ''Tanigawa'')|linecol=green|dir=Takasaki ・ ・ ・

No. 19 - 22

These are two underground island platforms.
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=19・20・22|first=2|linename=Saikyō Line|linecol=seagreen|dir=Ikebukuro ・ Shinjuku ・ ・ (Rinkai Line)
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=21・22|first=3|linename=Kawagoe Line|linecol=seagreen|dir= ・

Tōbu platforms

These platforms are bay platforms.
{{ja-rail-line|pfn=1・2|first=4|linename=Tōbu Noda Line|lineindex=Noda Line|linecol=blue|dir= ・ ・
・ ・ ・

Adjacent stations

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!colspan=5|'JR East'
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!colspan=5|'Tōbu Railway'
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!colspan=5|'Saitama New Urban Transit'

Railway facilities

JR East and Japan Freight Railway Company operate workshops which began in 1894 near the station.

See also

★ Railway Museum