History
When the Tōkaidō Main Line between Shizuoka and Kōzu opened in 1889, lobbying by neighbouring Iwabuchi caused the original station to be sited there as Iwabuchi (today's Fujikawa) rather than in Kambara. After local protests, Kambara Station was opened on May 16, 1890 at the former Sekizawa village, midway between Kambara-juku and Yui to keep the station spacing even. A station closer to the old post town was not added until Shin-Kambara opened on October 1, 1968. Freight handling ended in 1974 and parcel service in 1985. The station passed to JR Central at privatisation on April 1, 1987, joined the TOICA IC card area in 2008, received the station number CA11 in March 2018, and became unattended on June 1, 2025 with the introduction of the customer-support service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Static’s long-running dispute over siting led to the post town gaining its own station only in 1968, when Shin-Kambara opened a kilometre away; ridership at the new station overtook the original almost immediately.