History
Shin-Hamamatsu Station opened on 1 September 1927 as Asahimachi Station, the urban terminus of what is now the Enshū Railway Line in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Its reinforced-concrete station building, designed by local architect Yoshihei Nakamura, also housed the Enshū Electric Railway's headquarters and was regarded as one of the most modern structures in the city. The building's interior was gutted in the 18 June 1945 firebombing of Hamamatsu. The station was renamed Shin-Hamamatsu in 1953 and relocated 100 metres east in 1981 ahead of elevation. The current elevated platforms opened on 1 December 1985, and the adjoining Entetsu Department Store opened in 1988.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
In November 2021 the station signage was temporarily restyled as "Shin-Hamamatsu" with hiragana matching Hideaki Anno's Shin Evangelion film, a tie-in originally scheduled for one month that was extended through May 2022 by popular demand.