History
Yoshiwara Station opened on 1 February 1889 as Suzukawa Station with the Imperial Government Railway's Kōzu–Shizuoka section, making it one of the oldest stations in eastern Shizuoka. Set in then-Suzukawa village, away from the busy Yoshiwara-juku post town, it appears under the name Suzukawa in Inoue Yasushi's novel Shirobamba. The Suzukawa–Numazu section was double-tracked on 24 February 1899. The Gakunan Railway (now Gakunan Densha) connected the station to Yoshiwara-Hommachi on 18 November 1949, and the station was renamed Yoshiwara on 10 April 1956. A second-generation station building opened on 20 October 1970, and the JNR breakup of 1 April 1987 split the station between JR Central and JR Freight. TOICA acceptance began on 1 March 2008, and the station became unstaffed on 1 June 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.