Kusanagi Station (JR Central)

For Kusanagi Station (Shizuoka-Shimizu Railway), see Kusanagi Station (Shizuoka Railway).

Kusanagi Station 草薙駅
Kusanagi Station, April 2008
Location	Kusanagi, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Shizuoka （静岡市清水区草薙） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1926
Traffic

Passengers (2006)	8,390 daily

Kusangi Station (草薙駅, Kusanagi eki) is a train station in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The station is 174.2 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station history

A signal box was established on the site of the present Kusanagi Station on April 10, 1911. Kusanagi Station was opened on April 3, 1926. From 1930, the station had both passenger and freight operations; however, freight operations were discontinued from 1967. The current station building dates from 1973. Kusanagi Station serves the University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library. The Shizuoka-Shimizu local railway line's via Kusanagi Station is a three-minute walk away.

Lines

Central Japan Railway Company
- Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Kusanagi Station has two opposing side platforms serving Track 1 and Track 2, with headshunts, allowing for tracks for express trains to pass in between, and an overpass connecting the platforms. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter.

Platforms

1	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Shizuoka・Shimada・Kakegawa・Hamamatsu
2	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Shimizu・Fuji・Numazu・Mishima・Atami

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tōkaidō Main Line
Shimizu		Local	Higashi-Shizuoka

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Stations of the Tokaido Main Line (JR Central)

Atami Kannami Mishima Numazu Katahama Hara Higashi-Tagonoura Yoshiwara Fuji Fujikawa Shin-Kambara Kambara Yui Okitsu Shimizu Kusanagi Higashi-Shizuoka Shizuoka Abekawa Mochimune Yaizu Nishi-Yaizu Fujieda Rokugō Shimada Kanaya Kikugawa Kakegawa Aino Fukuroi Iwata Toyodachō Tenryūgawa Hamamatsu Takatsuka Maisaka Bentenjima Araimachi Washizu Shinjohara Futagawa Toyohashi Nishi-Kozakai Aichi-Mito Mikawa-Ōtsuka Mikawa-Miya Gamagōri Mikawa-Shiotsu Sangane Kōda Aimi Okazaki Nishi-Okazaki Anjō Mikawa-Anjō Higashi-Kariya Noda-Shimmachi Kariya Aizuma Ōbu Kyōwa Minami-Ōdaka Ōdaka Kasadera Atsuta Kanayama Otōbashi Nagoya Biwajima Kiyosu Inazawa Owari-Ichinomiya Kisogawa Gifu Nishi-Gifu Hozumi Ōgaki Tarui Sekigahara Kashiwabara Ōmi-Nagaoka Samegai Maibara

Mino-Akasaka Branch:	Ōgaki Arao Mino-Akasaka

Coordinates: 35°00′10″N 138°26′31″E / 35.002819°N 138.441875°E / 35.002819; 138.441875

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