History
Iwata Station opened on 16 April 1889 as Nakaizumi Station (中泉駅) when the government railway between Shizuoka and Hamamatsu was completed. Its station building was rebuilt in 1915 and again in 1957. The station was renamed Iwata on 10 October 1942. Regularly scheduled freight service ended on 26 February 1996, and the fourth-generation overhead station building entered service on 30 January 2000. JR Central took over operations from JNR at privatisation on 1 April 1987, while JR Freight retains the freight licence at the depot; TOICA service began on 1 March 2008, and the south-exit bus terminal opened on 1 April 2006. Station number CA31 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
A 1911-cast iron pillar from the station's first footbridge (used 1915–1986) is preserved beside the modern building, stamped "Meiji 44, Railway Bureau, Kawasaki Shipyard Hyōgo Branch."