History
Yugawara Station opened on 1 October 1924 on the Atami Line, then a single-track JNR branch built to bypass the Tanna Tunnel works. Service was extended to Atami in March 1925, initially by hand-pushed trolleys and later by steam railcars. With the completion of the Tanna Tunnel on 1 December 1934 the Atami route was absorbed into the Tōkaidō Main Line, giving Yugawara through service to Mishima and Numazu. Freight handling ended in 1982 and parcel service in 1985. The station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987, automatic gates arrived in 1995, and the present station-front plaza by Kengo Kuma was completed in 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yugawara is the southernmost JR East station in Kanagawa Prefecture and marks the southern boundary of the Tokyo-area ATOS train-control system on the Tōkaidō Line.