Itō Station (伊東駅) is in Itō, Shizuoka Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company, Japan Freight Railway Company and Izukyū Corporation operate it on the Itō Line. It opened on 15 December 1938.
History
The station opened on 15 December 1938 as the end of the Itō Line from Ajiro, which was then run by the Railway Ministry. In November 1943 the railway was reorganised under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and in May 1945 under the Ministry of Transport. Japanese National Railways took over on 1 June 1949.
On 25 May 1947 a leave train for British Commonwealth occupation forces, called the BCOF train, ran between here and Kure. On 10 December 1961 the Izukyū Line opened to Izukyū-Shimoda. A Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened on 24 September 1965. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1980 and the freight platform was removed. Parcel handling ended on 14 March 1985.
Freight handling restarted for rail vehicles only on 31 March 1987. On 1 April 1987 JR East and JR Freight became the operators. Suica became usable on 16 October 2004, when the station joined the Tokyo commuter area. Escalators up to the platforms and an accessible elevator were added in the underground passage on 24 March 2006. The whole station became non-smoking on 1 October 2009. From 13 March 2010 Suica could be used on the Izukyū Line, and the area south of here was added to the Suica Tokyo area.
On 29 March 2015 the departure melody changed to the children's song Mikan no Hana Saku Oka, linked to Itō. A heated and cooled waiting room was set up in June 2016. Station building renovation began in November 2018 and finished in March 2019.
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