Kusanagi

History

Kusanagi began life as a signal station opened on 10 April 1911 on the Tokaido Main Line between Ejiri (now Shimizu) and Shizuoka. Local residents soon campaigned for passenger service, and after pauses caused by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake the village council renewed petitions in 1924. Kusanagi Station opened on 3 April 1926 as a passenger-only stop, with freight added in 1930 and discontinued in 1967. A 1973 station building stood until November 2014; an elevated structure with a north-south concourse opened on 18 September 2016. The station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and received TOICA support in March 2008.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.

Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.

Notes

When the 'Orient Express' visited Shizuoka in November 1988, Kusanagi's centre track was used as the consist's turn-back point.