History
Shiotsu Station opened on 15 December 1910 as a passenger-and-freight station on the Japanese Government Railways' Chūō Main Line, initially to carry construction material for the Ōno reservoir two kilometres to the north-west. Freight handling ended on 20 April 1960 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001 and the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi office closed on 31 May 2009. Elevators and a multi-purpose toilet were installed on 29 March 2021, and a new station building was commissioned on 20 June 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The hillside residential district above the station, Comoa Shiotsu, is reached from the forecourt via the 'Comoa Bridge', a pair of inclined elevators and an escalator that climb a steep wooded slope.