History
Shibakawa Station opened on 1 March 1915 as the terminus of the Fuji-Minobu Railway, handling both passengers and freight from a site in present-day Fujinomiya, Shizuoka. The line was extended past the station to Toshima on 10 August 1918. The private operator was leased to the state in 1938 and fully nationalised on 1 May 1941, after which the line became the Minobu Line. Freight service ended in September 1972 and parcel handling in February 1984. JR Central inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. When the Fujikawa express service was upgraded to a limited express in October 1995 the station lost its stop, and the building was de-staffed in 1998 and rebuilt in 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shibakawa Station once anchored a network of freight sidings serving a large Oji Specialty Paper plant immediately behind it, and the headshunt that allowed limited expresses to pass through the single island platform still survives even though the through services no longer stop here.