History
Maisaka Station opened on 1 September 1888 as Magoori Station, when the Tōkaidō Main Line section between Hamamatsu and Ōbu was completed. It was renamed Maisaka on 1 December 1888, though the present kanji spelling was only fixed in 1940. Regular freight handling ceased on 26 April 1971 and parcel service in 1986. With the 1987 privatisation the station passed to JR Central. A bridge-style station building and north-south concourse opened on 15 November 2003, originally as a Hamanako Garden Expo project, allowing the previously cramped southern frontage to be supplemented with a north entrance. Automated ticket gates were installed in April 2005, TOICA service began in March 2008, and station numbering CA36 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.