History
Hikuma Station opened on 6 December 1909 as Shimanosato Station on the Enshū Railway Line, in what is now Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was renamed Enshū-Shimanosato around April 1923, then Enshū-Hikuma on 1 November 1951 to reflect changes in the surrounding municipal place-name. When the 3.4-kilometre section through the station was elevated on 24 November 2012 and the station building rebuilt, the prefix was dropped and the station took its current name. The current configuration is two opposed elevated side platforms serving two tracks; the station is staffed during daylight hours, with the station code ET06.
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
Pre-war planning for the abandoned Dangan Ressha bullet-train project of 1939-1945 placed a station near present-day Hikuma.