Shin-Shizuoka Station

Shin-Shizuoka Station
新静岡駅
Shin-Shizuoka Center
Location
Prefecture Shizuoka
(See other stations in Shizuoka)
City Shizuoka
Ward Aoi
Neighborhood etc. 1-1-1 Takajō
Postal code421-0133
(in Japanese)静岡市葵区鷹匠一丁目1番1号
History
Year opened 1908
Rail services
Operator(s) Shizuoka Railway Company
Line(s) Shizuoka-Shimizu Line
Statistics 11,070 passengers/day 2006
Major bus terminal(s) attached to the station

Shin-Shizuoka Station (新静岡駅 Shin-Shizuoka-eki) is a terminal train station of the Shizuoka-Shimizu Line in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is located within the Shin-Shizuoka Cenova shopping complex.

History

The old Shin-Shizuoka Center

Shin-Shizuoka Station was opened on December 9, 1908 as Takajōmachi Station (鷹匠町駅 Takajōmachi-eki). It was renamed “Shin-Shizuoka” on October 1, 1954. Shizuoka’s city tram system was discontinued in September 1962, and a large bus terminal was established at Shin-Shizuoka Station on May 10, 1966. The Shin-Shizuoka Center department store above the station was opened on May 15, 1966. This was closed and demolished at the end of January 2009, and a new, larger shopping complex called Cenova opened October 5, 2011.

Lines

Layout

Shin-Shizuoka Station has two island platforms serving three tracks. The station building has automated ticket machines, and automated turnstiles, which accept the LuLuCa smart card ticketing system as well as the PiTaPa and ICOCA IC cards.

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Shizuoka Railway Company
Shizuoka-Shimizu Line
Terminus - Hiyoshichō

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Coordinates: 34°58′33″N 138°23′15″E / 34.975813°N 138.387421°E