Kambara Station

Kambara Station 蒲原駅
JR Kambara Station in 2008
Location	Kambara-Segizawa, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Shizuoka （静岡県静岡市清水区蒲原堰沢） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1890
Traffic

Passengers (2006)	874 daily

Kambara Station (蒲原駅, Kambara-eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station is 154.9 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station history

When the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line connecting Shizuoka with Kōzu was completed in 1889, the initial plan was to construct stations in accord with the traditional 53 stages of the Tokaido road. However, in between Yoshiwara-juku and Kanbara-juku there was a traditionally unnumbered intermediary post station where a branch road led to the pilgrimage location of Mount Minobu. It was decided to build a railroad station at this location, and to bypass nearby Kambara Town instead. This led to a predictable uproar from Kambara, so Kambara Station was built a year later, but at an inconvenient distance outside of town, so as to keep the spacing between stations fairly even. A station in the middle of Kambara Town was not actually built until Shin-Kambara Station in 1968. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1972, and all freight services by 1985.

Lines

Central Japan Railway Company
- Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Kambara Station has a single side platform serving Track 1 and an island platform serving Track 2 and Track 3, connected to the station building by an overpass. Track 2 is used for through transit of express trains, as is Track 4 (without platform) to the outside of Track 3. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter.

Platforms

1	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Fuji・Numazu・Mishima・Atami
2	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For express trains
3	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Shimizu・Shizuoka・Hamamatsu

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Central Japan Railway Company
Tōkaidō Main Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Shin-Kambara	Local	Yui

References

Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)

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°6′51″N 138°34′59″E / 35.11417°N 138.58306°E / 35.11417; 138.58306

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