History
Atami Station opened on 25 March 1925 as the eastern terminus of the Atami Line. Through service westward began on 1 December 1934 when the Tanna Tunnel was completed, and the Itō Line started running into Atami from 30 March 1935. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen platforms — built one level above the conventional tracks on the steep hillside — entered service when the high-speed line opened on 1 October 1964. Shinkansen platform-edge doors were installed in September 1974, the first of their kind in Japan. At JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station became a boundary point between JR East and JR Central. A new station building opened in November 2015, with the Lusca Atami retail building following in November 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Through trains on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen are restricted to 200 km/h passing Atami, the slowest pass-through speed on the line, because of a 1,500-metre-radius curve immediately west of the station — among the tightest on the route.