Ashigara Station (Shizuoka)

This article is about a station of Gotemba Line. For a station of Odakyu Odawara Line, see Ashigara Station (Kanagawa).

Ashigara Station 足柄駅
Exterior of Ashigara Station
Location
Prefecture	Shizuoka (See other stations in Shizuoka)
District	Suntō
Town	Oyama
Neighborhood etc.	Takenoshita
Postal Code	410-1313
(in Japanese)	静岡県駿東郡小山町竹之下
History
Year opened	1947
Rail services
Operator(s)	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Gotemba Line
Statistics	614 passengers/day 2000
There is a bus stop near this station

The platform and 115 series train on the right.

Ashigara Station (足柄駅, Ashgara-eki) is a railway station on the Gotemba Line located in the eastern part of Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).

Station history

Ashigara Station began as the Ashigara Signal Station(足柄信号所) on January 20, 1903. It was upgraded to the Ashigara Signal Ground(足柄信号場) of April 1, 1922 and moved to its present location as Ashigara Station on September 15, 1947.

Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued on February 1, 1971. Operational control of the station was transferred to JR Central following privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987.

Station layout

This station has one island platform and station building to the west of the tracks and is unmanned.

Platform

1	■Gotemba Line	For Gotemba, Susono, Numazu
2	■Gotemba Line	For Yamakita, Matsuda, Kōzu

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Gotemba Line
Suruga-Oyama		Local	Gotemba

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

• (Japanese) Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 
• (Japanese) home page