History
Tsujidō Station is on the JR East Tōkaidō Main Line in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 54.8 km from Tokyo. A signal station opened here on 15 March 1913; a regular station followed on 1 December 1916 as a petitioned facility funded by 2,500 tsubo of donated land and 2,483 yen from local residents, intended to move materiel to the Imperial Japanese Navy's nearby Tsujidō gunnery testing range. The original building was destroyed in the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 and rebuilt the following October. An overhead concourse and north-south free passage were completed in November 1977. The station passed to JR East at JNR's privatisation in April 1987, and saw a major expansion through the Shōnan C-X redevelopment from 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
From October 1955 a 1,065-metre straight section between Tsujidō and Chigasaki was used for three years of high-speed track tests on 50- and 200-metre welded rails with PC sleepers and rubber pads, contributing to the design of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen.