History
Shimo-Togari Station opened on 15 June 1898 as the original Mishima Station on the government-built railway (later the Tōkaidō Main Line), between Sano and Numazu. It served as the junction with the Zusō Railway (predecessor of the Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line). When the Tanna Tunnel was completed on 1 December 1934 and the new Atami–Numazu line opened, a second Mishima Station was established on the new route and the Sunzu Line's terminus shifted there. The station was renamed Shimo-Togari on 1 October 1934, and the Kōzu–Numazu section was reclassified as the Gotemba Line that December. Singletracking followed in 1943, electrification in 1968, and JR Central inherited the station in 1987. TOICA service began in March 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 16th verse of the 1900 Tōkaidō edition of the Railway Song refers to the station as the Mishima junction with the Zusō Railway, pointing the way to Mishima Taisha shrine.