History
Higashi-Shizuoka Station opened on 30 October 1998 as part of the Higashi-Shizuoka Subcentre Redevelopment, on land freed when the former Higashi-Shizuoka Freight Terminal was downsized and relocated about one kilometre east in 1993 (renamed Shizuoka Freight). The neighbouring Shizuoka Convention and Arts Centre (Granship) opened the following year. The station is built around a single 240 m-long island platform under an elevated overbridge that spans the parallel Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks immediately to the south; the moving walkway in the north-south passageway won the 1998 Tanaka Prize. TOICA service began on 1 March 2008. Station numbering as CA16 was introduced in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1998 north-south passageway over the Shinkansen tracks won the 1998 Tanaka Prize for bridge engineering, partly for its use of a moving walkway alongside the elevated track span.