History
Ōoka Station began life as an unnamed wartime siding built to move workers to the munitions plants concentrated in Numazu's Ōoka district. With the Pacific War over, it was reopened as a public passenger station on 15 January 1946, on what is now JR Central's Gotemba Line. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1971, and at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. The Gotemba Line received station numbering in March 2018, when Ōoka was assigned CB17. The single side platform is staffed but goes unmanned at night.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite serving JR Central today, the platform stands on tracks first laid as an industrial spur to a wartime munitions complex rather than as part of any planned passenger line.