Iwata Station (磐田駅) is an over-the-tracks station in Iwata, Shizuoka. Central Japan Railway Company and Japan Freight Railway Company run it. It opened on 16 April 1889 as Nakaizumi Station (中泉駅).
History
The station opened on 16 April 1889 as Nakaizumi Station (中泉駅), when the government railway between Shizuoka and Hamamatsu opened. It was a general station. The first station building is said to have stood a little west of the present site. On 1 April 1895 the line was named, and the station became part of the Tōkaidō Line, later the Tōkaidō Main Line. The Nakaizumi tramway opened in 1909. In June 1915 the station was rebuilt with a second station building.
On 20 November 1928 the Kōmei Electric Railway opened its Shin-Nakaizumi Station. On 30 May 1930 Emperor Shōwa visited Shizuoka Prefecture, and an imperial special train ran from Nakaizumi to Hamamatsu. The Nakaizumi tramway suspended service in 1932. Shin-Nakaizumi Station stopped operating on 21 January 1935, and it was formally abolished the next year.
On 10 October 1942 the station was renamed Iwata Station (磐田駅). On 25 October 1957 it was rebuilt as a third station building, a two-storey reinforced-concrete building. Parcel handling ended on 1 November 1986. The Midori no Madoguchi opened on 22 February 1987. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and Japan Freight Railway Company. Automatic ticket gates came into use on 14 November 1992.
The last day of freight train arrivals and departures was 26 February 1996. On 30 January 2000 the station was rebuilt as a fourth, over-the-tracks building. The south bus terminal opened on 1 April 2006. TOICA became usable on 1 March 2008. The north plaza was completed on 12 March 2016.
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