History
Shimizu Station opened on 1 February 1889 as Ejiri Station, an intermediate stop on the Kōzu–Shizuoka segment of the government-owned line that would become the Tōkaidō Main Line. The 1916 cargo branch to Shimizu Port grew into the Shimizu-kō Line, which carried passenger service from 1944 until its 1984 abolition. The station moved roughly 300 m upline to its present site in July 1926 and was renamed Shimizu on 1 December 1934. The current station building was rebuilt in 1969 and replaced again on 21 June 2003 with an overhead structure and east-west pedestrian passage. Automatic ticket gates arrived on 19 December 1992 and TOICA service started on 1 March 2008. The Limited Express "Fujikawa" via the Minobu Line still calls here, and Shimizu now also manages neighbouring stations from Fujikawa to Kusanagi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until December 1934 the station was called Ejiri (江尻); the name "Shimizu" was used earlier by what is today Tokachi-Shimizu in Hokkaido — that station had to be renamed first before Ejiri could take the Shimizu name. The station and surrounding streets feature in the manga and anime "Chibi Maruko-chan," set in the local Shimizu shōtengai.