History
Manazuru Station opened on 21 December 1922 as the terminus of the JNR's Atami Line on its way down from Kōzu, in what is today the town of Manazuru in Kanagawa Prefecture. The line was extended to Yugawara on 1 October 1924, and after the opening of the Tanna Tunnel on 1 December 1934 the Atami Line was reclassified as part of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Regular freight service was discontinued in 1970 and parcel handling in 1972; both briefly resumed in March 1987 before final closure of freight operations in April 2006. Operations passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. Suica IC fares became available on 18 November 2001, and the conventional automatic ticket gates were replaced with simplified Suica readers on 14 September 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On 27 May 1977 a 26-car freight train derailed on the up line inside the station; 16 cars came off the rails and 12 overturned, but no one was injured.