History
Shimobe-onsen Station opened on December 17, 1927 as Shimobe Station, a stop on the Fuji-Minobu Line privately operated by Fuji Minobu Railway. The line was leased to the Japanese Government Railways in 1938 and nationalized on May 1, 1941, becoming part of the Minobu Line. Freight handling ended in 1972. After the privatization of Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987, the station came under JR Central. On December 14, 1991, it was renamed Shimobe-onsen Station to highlight its role as the gateway to the nearby Shimobe hot spring. The station was directly staffed by JR Central until 2012, when declining patronage led to it being made unstaffed under Minobu Station management.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's original black-tiled wooden building from 1927 remains standing and now houses only a waiting area, as ticket sales ended when it was unstaffed in 2012.