History
The site has been in use since 20 January 1903, when the government railways opened Ashigara Signal Station between Suruga-Oyama and Gotemba on the Tōkaidō Main Line. It was renamed a signal stop in 1922. It lost its main-line status on 1 December 1934 when the Tanna Tunnel diverted Tōkaidō trains via Atami and the Kōzu–Numazu route became the Gotemba Line. Local residents campaigned for a passenger stop, and the signal stop was upgraded — moved 1.4 km towards Suruga-Oyama — to Ashigara Station on 15 September 1947. JR Central took over in April 1987, TOICA service began in March 2019, and a Kengo Kuma–designed building opened on 13 July 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The 2020 station building was designed by Kengo Kuma and shares its premises with the Ashigara branch office of the Oyama town hall, doubling the station as a community centre.