Takatsuka Station (高塚駅) is in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and is run by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). It opened on 1 July 1929.
History
The site began as the Takatsuka signal station on the Tokaido Line between Hamamatsu and Maisaka, which opened on 31 March 1911. On 1 April 1922 it was renamed Takatsuka Signal Station. The station building was finished in 1928, but it could not open because of partisan conflict. Takatsuka Station opened as a passenger station on 1 July 1929.
A private siding for Enshu Orimachi opened on 30 May 1934. A shop run by the Railway Kosaikai welfare group opened in 1947, and a substation was built in 1953. On 25 September 1957, private sidings for Esso Oil and Idemitsu Kosan were built, and electric trains began running between Hamamatsu and Toyohashi that year. A taxi service started at the station in 1959.
Freight handling ended on 26 April 1971, except for private siding traffic. The sidings to Suzuki's head factory and to Enshu Seisakusho's head office were in use until about 1983. All freight handling ended on 1 October 1983. Parcel handling ended on 14 March 1985.
JR Central took over on 1 April 1987. In 1988 the Orient Express tourist train stopped on a middle track. In 1991, Kami village, where the station stood, was merged into Hamamatsu city, and this was the last station on the Tokaido Line in a village area. TOICA became usable on 1 March 2008. The raised station and north-south free passage opened on 1 March 2015. The south station square opened in March 2017, and the north drop-off lane opened on 1 April 2018.
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