Shizuoka Railway Station
| Shizuoka ( 静岡 ) | |
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.jpg) Reception building on the north side (May 2010)
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | CA17 |
| opening | February 1, 1889 |
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| City / municipality | Shizuoka |
| prefecture | Shizuoka |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 34 ° 58 '18 " N , 138 ° 23' 21" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 16 m TP |
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The Shizuoka Station ( Jap. 静岡駅 , Shizuoka-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu , operated by the railway company JR Central . It is located in Shizuoka Prefecture in the field of city Shizuoka , more precisely in the district Aoi-ku . Shinkansen high-speed trains stop here , which is why the station is an important transport hub.
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Shizuoka is a through station through which two of the most important railway lines in Japan, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and the Tōkaidō Main Line , run parallel. The railway company JR Central is responsible for the operation of both lines . What is unusual for a train station of such great importance is the fact that no branch lines branch off here, but rather that rail traffic is concentrated on one axis.
On the Shinkansen high-speed line , Shizuoka is usually served twice an hour in each direction by Kodama trains that stop at all intermediate stations. In addition, there are Hikari trains every hour that skip individual intermediate stations. Nozomi trains, however, do not stop. In contrast to earlier times, there are only relatively few express trains on the Tōkaidō main line . The Fujikawa ( ふ じ か わ ) connects Shizuoka with Fuji and Kofu . The Home Liner ( ホ ー ム ラ イ ナ ー ) from Numazu via Shizuoka to Hamamatsu is an express train with reserved seats during peak traffic. Regional trains run three to six times an hour, depending on the route section and time of day. There are also the night trains Sunrise Izumo ( サ ン ラ イ ズ 出 雲 ) and Sunrise Seto ( サ ン ラ イ ズ 瀬 戸 ).
The station is accessed on both sides by several city bus routes operated by Shizutetsu Justline . There is also a bus station , which is mainly used for long-distance bus traffic. Shin-Shizuoka Station , the terminus of the Shizuoka-Shimizu line, is a few hundred meters north .
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The station is in the Kuroganechō district, on the eastern edge of the city center. The facility is oriented from northeast to southwest and has nine tracks, five of which belong to the Cape Tōkaidō main line and four to the standard - gauge high - speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen line . They are all elevated on a wide viaduct . Four tracks of the Tōkaidō main line lead past two central platforms on the north side . It is not possible to board the northernmost platform, it is only used by freight trains passing through. The high-speed trains stopping in Shizuoka use side platforms on the south side of the facility; two tracks in between are reserved for passing trains. About half a kilometer southwest of the station there is a four-track storage facility on the Tōkaidō main line. About one and a half kilometers northeast, near the neighboring Higashi-Shizuoka station, the extensive Shizuoka depot extends .
The eight-storey entrance building on the north side is called PARCHÉ ( パ ル シ ェ ) and contains the shopping center of the same name with 190 shops and a roof terrace with a beer garden. All platforms and both station forecourts are connected by a wide pedestrian passage, which is continued in an underground shopping arcade towards the city center. On the northern forecourt is a statue depicting the young Tokugawa Ieyasu . In front of the south entrance there are two bronze sculptures, reproductions of works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin .
In 2016, the station had an average of 59,043 passengers a day.
Tracks
| 1/2 | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Fuji • Numazu • Atami |
| 3/4 | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Hamamatsu • Toyohashi |
| 5 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Shin-Yokohama • Tokyo |
| 6th | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Nagoya • Shin-Osaka |
history
The station opened on February 1, 1889, along with the Shizuoka– Kōzu section of the Tōkaidō main line (part of the route taken at the time corresponds to today's Gotemba line ). A big party was planned for the opening day; but the night before, over 1,100 buildings had been destroyed in a devastating fire, so that the ceremony was carried out in a very modest setting out of consideration for the needy population. Shizuoka was the terminus for two and a half months, until the extension of the line to Hamamatsu on April 16, 1889. In view of the steadily increasing demand, the station building had to be replaced by a new building for the first time in 1907 and again in 1935. On October 1, 1964, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka began operations.
The high-speed traffic caused a further marked increase in the number of users and the train station again reached its capacity limits. For this reason, the Japanese State Railways outsourced most of the freight traffic on October 1, 1967 to the new freight station in the east of the city, the remainder on June 1, 1973. There was now enough space to put all the tracks and platforms on a viaduct relocate. The corresponding work was completed on October 12, 1979. On August 16, 1980, a gas explosion occurred : A small gas bottle had ignited in a sushi restaurant. When the fire brigade approached, there was a second, much larger explosion. Sparks had ignited other gas leaks that had accumulated in the underground shopping arcade without suitable exhaust vents. A total of 15 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
The PARCHÉ shopping center opened on October 8, 1981. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped checking in luggage on November 1, 1986. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the ownership of the new company JR Central on April 1, 1987 .
Adjacent train stations
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JR Central Tōkaidō Main Line |
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 Shizuoka Tram (1922–1962) Shizuoka Tetsudō |
Shin-Shizuoka | ||
Web links
- JR Central Station Information (Japanese)
- PARCHÉ Shopping Center (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. (Timetable Tōkaidō-Shinkansen Shizuoka). shinkansen.co.jp, 2018, accessed January 23, 2019 .
- ↑ JR 時刻表 2016 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2018). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2018.
- ↑ 鉄 道 運 駅 別 運. (PDF, 204 kB) In: 静岡 県 統計 年鑑 (Statistical Yearbook 2016). Shizuoka Prefecture, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ Yukiyoshi Kawakami: 新 日本 鉄 道 史 . Denkisha kenkyūkai, Chiyoda 1968.
- ↑ a b c Tetsu Ishino (ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大 辞典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .
- ↑ Jun Hongo: Tokyo underground: taking property development to new depths. The Japan Times , April 12, 2014, accessed January 23, 2019 .