History
Shinjohara Station opened on 1 December 1936 on the Tōkaidō Main Line in what is now Kosai, Shizuoka, with its platform straddling the Shizuoka/Aichi prefectural border so that it also serves part of Toyohashi. The station passed from Japanese National Railways to JR Central on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. A separate two-storey building on the east side later became the terminus of the third-sector Tenryū Hamanako Line, located 67.7 km from the opposing terminus at Kakegawa. JR Central introduced station numbering on its section of the Tōkaidō Line in March 2018, assigning Shinjohara the code CA40.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform sits on the Shizuoka–Aichi prefectural boundary, so passengers waiting at one end stand in a different prefecture from those at the other.