History
Shinohara Station traces its origin to a signal stop opened on 1 June 1918 on the Japanese Government Railways' Tōkaidō Main Line. It was promoted to a full station on 20 April 1921, beginning passenger and freight service. Freight was discontinued on 1 February 1962 and parcel handling on 15 March 1972. The station passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and was branded as part of the Biwako Line nickname from 13 March 1988. A through-station footbridge and elevated concourse, costing roughly 1.43 billion yen, opened on 19 September 2015, providing barrier-free access and creating the station's south exit; ICOCA contactless ticketing became available on 1 November 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.