is a passenger railway station located in à Âmiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Saitama-Shintoshin Station is served by the KeihinâÂÂTà Âhoku Line, Takasaki Line, and Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), and lies from Tokyo Station.
This station has and elevated station building with two ground-level island platforms serving four tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.
Platform edge doors are scheduled to be installed on the Keihin-Tohoku Line platforms (1 and 2) in 2017, being brought into service on 23 September 2017.
The station opened on 1 April 2000. Due to not having dedicated platforms for the services, Shà ÂnanâÂÂShinjuku Line trains do not stop at Saitama-Shintoshin.
In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 55,782 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
There is a direct express bus service to and from Narita Airport.