History
Odawara Station opened on 21 October 1920 as the terminus of the Atami Line (today's Tōkaidō Main Line) of the Japanese Government Railways. The Odakyu Odawara Line reached the station on 1 April 1927, followed by the Daiyūzan Railway (now Izuhakone Railway) on 16 June 1935 and the Hakone Tozan Railway on 1 October 1935. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen began stopping on 1 October 1964, and Hikari trains added a stop in 1980. JNR was privatised on 1 April 1987, splitting passenger operations between JR East and JR Central, with JR Freight inheriting freight rights. The current bridge-station building and the Arc Road east-west concourse were completed in March and December 2003 respectively.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A giant Odawara-chōchin lantern hung by a citizen group near the JR turnstile gates was dismantled after damage from Typhoon Hagibis in 2019 and reinstalled on 29 August 2020 following municipal restoration.