History
Sakurabashi Station is a Shizuoka Railway (Shizutetsu) Shizuoka–Shimizu Line station in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City, located 10.0 kilometres from the Shin-Shizuoka terminus. It opened on 9 December 1908, and automated ticket gates were installed on 1 September 1992. Express services stopped here until the schedule revision of 31 March 1996, returned during the 2011 to 2020 express era and stopped again after the suspension of express running, before being restored once more on 29 March 2025. The platform layout was reworked from an island to two offset side platforms to relieve rush-hour congestion, and the original station building, which had stood near the namesake Sakurabashi bridge to the east, was moved to its present central position during that work.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
When an overnight freight derailment blocked the Tōkaidō Main Line on 27 March 1950, Shizuoka Railway connected its undamaged up-line to the JNR tracks near this area to keep traffic moving — work that later earned the railway commendations from the Minister of Transport and the JNR president.