History
Fujieda Station opened on 16 April 1889 with the completion of the Tōkaidō Main Line between Shizuoka and Hamamatsu, originally located in Aoshima Village before the city of Fujieda existed. Just eleven days after opening, an Imperial Household Ministry official was killed jumping for a departing train, an incident credited with prompting the line's first onboard toilets a month later. Fujieda became an interchange with the Tōen Line (later Shizuoka Railway) on 16 November 1913. Scheduled freight service ended on 1 November 1986, the station was rebuilt as an overhead structure on 20 July 1975, and JR Central took over from JNR on 1 April 1987. A new north-south concourse and overhead station building were completed in stages between 2005 and 2007, and TOICA service began on 1 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
An accident at Fujieda on the day after opening, in which an official died jumping for a moving train, is credited with prompting the Tōkaidō Main Line to install onboard toilets for the first time, on 10 May 1889.