Numazu Station (沼津駅) is a ground-level station in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It is run by Central Japan Railway Company and Japan Freight Railway Company. It opened on 1 February 1889.
History
Numazu Station (沼津駅) opened on 1 February 1889 as a station on the government railway. It opened when the line from Kozu to Shizuoka was completed. In January 1891 double track was laid between Gotemba and Numazu, and the station became the point where single and double track sections meet. In April 1895 the line through the station was named the Tokaido Line. In February 1899 double track was also laid between Numazu and Suzukawa Station (later Yoshiwara Station).
In June 1899 a line for carrying materials began running between Numazu Station and Janimatsu Station (later Numazu Port Station). At first it ran as a non-passenger line of the government railway. In November 1907 it became an official freight branch line. In October 1909 the Tokaido Line through the station was renamed the Tokaido Main Line.
A fire in Numazu on 3 March 1913 destroyed the first station building. Another fire in Numazu on 10 December 1926 destroyed the second. In 1934 a new line from Atami to Numazu opened, electrified. The lines west of Numazu were not yet electrified. On 1 December 1934 the Tokaido Line between Atami and Numazu opened. The line from Kozu through Gotemba to Numazu was renamed the Gotemba Line, and Numazu became the connecting station between the two lines. The station building was rebuilt in July 1937. On 16 July 1945 a US air raid during the Pacific War destroyed the station building.
On 1 February 1949 the Tokaido Line between Numazu and Shizuoka was electrified. A new station building opened on 30 March 1953. A north exit was added in 1956. A container platform was installed in 1968. On 1 July 1968 the Gotemba Line between Gotemba and Numazu was electrified, so all passenger lines that reach the station are now electric. A travel centre opened on 1 April 1972. A station building (駅ビル) was built on 1 July 1973. On 1 September 1974 the freight branch from Numazu Station to Numazu Port Station closed.
On 1 November 1986 the station stopped handling parcels. It also lost its role as a freight car shunting yard. In April 1987, when the Japanese National Railways was split up, the station became a station of JR Central and JR Freight. Automatic ticket gates were introduced on 30 January 1993. Electronic interlocking began on 30 October 1995. TOICA service started on 1 March 2008. On 17 March 2012 the Asagiri train service stopped running into this station. On 14 March 2015, after the Tokyo to Ueno section of JR East's Tohoku Line opened, this station became the western end of through trains from the Tohoku and Takasaki lines that run via Tokyo. On 7 June 2020 the interlocking equipment at the station was replaced. Some trains were cancelled and buses replaced them: in the down direction between Mishima and Numazu, and in the up direction between Numazu and Higashi-Tagonoura. On 14 March 2026 a reserved-seat ticket machine with support features was introduced, and the ticket windows at the JR ticket office on the north side closed.
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