Shizuoka Station (静岡駅) in Shizuoka City is run by Central Japan Railway Company and serves the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. It opened on 1 February 1889 as a government railway station.
History
A large fire destroyed much of the town centre on 1 February 1889, the day the station opened, so the opening ceremony was kept simple. Sake and rice cakes that had been prepared were given to people who had lost their homes. The station opened that day as a government railway station on the line between Kōzu and Shizuoka. On 16 April 1889 the line was extended to Hamamatsu, joining the existing line toward Toyohashi. The line name was set on 1 April 1895. A second station building was built in October 1907.
A third station building was built on 10 October 1935. The station building burned in the Shizuoka fire (静岡大火) on 15 January 1940. An overbridge came into use on 12 October 1957, and the level crossing inside the station was closed. The Tokaido Shinkansen station opened on 1 October 1964.
Some freight work moved to Higashi-Shizuoka on 1 October 1967. The Shinkansen platforms were extended on 15 March 1970 to take longer trains. A travel centre opened on 1 April 1971. All freight handling stopped on 1 June 1973. The down line was elevated on 17 October 1977, the up line on 15 February 1979, and the elevated station building was completed on 12 October 1979.
The Parshe station building (静岡駅ビル「パルシェ」) opened on 8 October 1981. Escalators were added to the down platform and the Shinkansen in spring 1983, and to the up platform on 31 March 1984. Luggage handling ended on 1 November 1986. The station passed to JR Central on 1 April 1987. ASTY Shizuoka opened under the elevated structure on 13 July 1991. Automatic ticket gates were introduced at the conventional line gates on 12 December 1992.
A trial of automatic gates at the Shinkansen gate was run on 15 April 1997. On 11 June 1997 automatic gates came into use at the Shinkansen gate, the first for the Shinkansen in Japan. TOICA became usable at the conventional gates on 1 March 2008. Local trains running directly from here to Tokyo Station were discontinued; the last one ran the day before 17 March 2012.
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