History
The present Mishima Station opened on 1 December 1934 to coincide with the Atami - Numazu re-routing of the Tōkaidō Main Line via the new Tanna Tunnel, replacing the original Mishima Station (since renamed Shimo-Togari). The Izuhakone Railway moved its Sunzu Line terminus to the new station the same day. On 25 April 1969 Mishima became the first all-new Shinkansen station added after the line opened, lifted out of an existing signal-and-stabling facility. JR Central and JR Freight took over at the 1987 privatisation; regular freight service ended in 2008, and the southside building was rebuilt to its original outward design in 2013 after a seismic retrofit.
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
Author Yukio Mishima reportedly took his pen name from this station, picked up by his editors who saw snow on Mount Fuji from a passing train as they went to meet him in Shuzenji.