Tsujido Station (辻堂駅) is in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Tōkaidō Line. It opened on 1 December 1916.
History
Residents began a campaign for a station in March 1914. The signal stop at Tsujido opened on 15 March 1913. The station opened on 1 December 1916 as a petitioned station. The Japanese navy's artillery test ground on the coast needed supplies moved, and local residents paid for the land and building costs. On 1 September 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake collapsed the station building. A new building was completed on 3 October 1924, and a telegraph office was set up in the station on 21 December 1924.
During the Second World War, a Japanese navy clothing depot branch was set up on the north side on 1 October 1943. Bus service run by the Enoshima Electric Railway was suspended on 4 March 1944. On 18 December 1945, two freight cars exploded while being shunted. They were carrying old Japanese army incendiary bombs under an order from the Allied forces. Several people were killed, and many houses and nearby factories were destroyed or damaged. On 8 December 1946, the Fujisawa city plan decided to rebuild the area in front of the station through land readjustment. A north exit was added in 1953.
The area around the station was developed from 1968 onward. A south rotary and paved plaza were finished in 1968. A road running beside the Tōkaidō Line opened in 1970. Parcel delivery was stopped on 1 May 1970. In 1973, a monorail from the station to Shonan Life Town was proposed, and it was later put on hold. An overpass over the Akamatsu crossing was completed in 1974, and the crossing was closed. The north rotary was finished in 1976, and buses began to use the north exit as well. The elevated station and the south-north free passage opened on 11 November 1977. Freight handling ended in 1981.
The station's facilities were updated from 1994 to 2012. A level crossing east of the station was replaced by an underpass in 1994. Automatic ticket gates opened on 25 March 1996, and Suica became usable on 18 November 2001. The north bus terminal moved to a temporary plaza on 26 November 2007, and the permanent north transport plaza opened on 11 March 2009. Freight tracks were switched on 9 July 2009. The up line was moved and the platform was widened on 23 May 2010. The Terrace Mall Shōnan opened on 11 November 2011 and was linked directly to the north exit. A south deck and a west overpass opened on 30 March 2012.
The station was run by a contractor from 1 July 2014. On 1 December 2016, the departure melody was changed to Hamabe no Uta. On 13 March 2021, the Shōnan Liner stopped using the station, and some limited express Shōnan trains began to stop here. Daytime stops for trains to Tokyo were increased.
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