Nagano to Saitama train

Trains from Nagano to Saitama start at €25.09 and take 2h 5m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Nagano to Saitama starts at €25.09 and takes 2h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 179 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 5mDoor to door
  • 1h 21mMoving
  • €25.09 to €58.09From
  • 06:15 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 5.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€25.09 to €58.09 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €58.09Tue15
  2. about €43.24Wed16
  3. about €52.59Thu17
  4. about €43.79Fri18
  5. about €40.49Sat19
  6. about €37.74Sun20
  7. about €32.79Mon21
  8. about €30.04Tue22
  9. about €27.29Wed23
  10. about €34.99Thu24
  11. about €32.24Fri25
  12. about €35.54Sat26
  13. about €30.04Sun27
  14. about €25.09Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€23.43
  1. East Japan Railway Company EJ999407:3050m08:20Nagano StationTakasaki Yard
  2. East Japan Railway Company EJ778109:3345m10:18Takasaki YardSaitama-Shintoshin Station

Changes at Takasaki, with 73 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 3h 32mCO2 6.0 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€23.44
  1. East Japan Railway Company EJ855706:151h 21m07:36Nagano StationSaitama-Shintoshin Station

Door to door 2h 5mCO2 5.9 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
East Japan Railway Company€23.442h 1m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • East Japan Railway Company

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Booking window

When to book Nagano to Saitama

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €26.7490 days
  2. €24.5460 days
  3. €26.7445 days
  4. €17.3930 days
  5. €23.4321 days
  6. €25.0914 days
  7. €32.797 days
  8. €52.593 days
  9. €58.091 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €17.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 234 percent. The dearest point is €58.09, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €30.04Sun
  2. €25.09Mon
  3. €30.04Tue
  4. €27.84Wed
  5. €34.99Thu
  6. €32.24Fri
  7. €35.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Nagano

Rail
  • Nagano Station
  • Kita-Nagano Station
  • Minami-Nagano Station

Saitama

Rail
  • Saitama-Shintoshin Station
  • Saitama New Urban Transit Ōmiya Station
  • Omiya Yard
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 179 km against 156 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Hachiōji, Aihara, Takasaki, Maebashi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Nagano at 06:15 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Nagano to Saitama

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Nagano to Saitama take?

The Train from Nagano to Saitama takes 2h 5m door to door, of which 1h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 179 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Nagano to Saitama cost?

The Train from Nagano to Saitama starts at €25.09 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €23.98. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Nagano to Saitama?

1 operators run the Train from Nagano to Saitama: East Japan Railway Company. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Nagano to Saitama use?

The Train from Nagano to Saitama leaves from Nagano Station and arrives at Saitama-Shintoshin Station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Nagano to Saitama?

Fares for the Train from Nagano to Saitama bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €17.39. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 234 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Nagano to Saitama produce?

The Train from Nagano to Saitama produces about 5.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 179 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Nagano to Saitama?

Operators on the Train from Nagano to Saitama publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 5m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Nagano to Saitama on 14 September 2026: 179 km of route against 156 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €25.09, and 2h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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