History
Saitama-Shintoshin Station opened on 1 April 2000, just over a month before the 5 May opening of the surrounding Saitama New Urban Center business district. Construction began in February 1997, and the building was designed by Saitama-born architect Edward Suzuki together with JR East's design office, using an elliptical tube section to span an 80-metre east-west concourse without intermediate columns. The station won a Good Design Award in October 2000 and a Sai-no-Kuni Saitama landscape prize in February 2001. Suica was introduced in November 2001. Platform edge doors entered service on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line platforms on 23 September 2017, making this the first Saitama JR station to receive them. Operation has remained with JR East throughout.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and Musashino-Line through trains do not stop here because the freight tracks they use bypass the station to the west and have no platform.