Kanaya (Shizuoka)

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Kanaya opened on 16 May 1890 as a general station of the government railway between Shimada and Horinouchi (today's Kikugawa); the line-name regulations of 1 April 1895 placed it on the Tōkaidō Line. The Ōigawa Railway side station opened on 10 June 1927, making Kanaya the junction it remains today. Freight handling ceased on 1 October 1971, and a rebuilt JNR station building was completed in March 1978. A Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed ticket office opened on 4 February 1987, and on 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation transferred the station to JR Central. TOICA support on the JR side began on 1 March 2008, and an elevator was added on 28 March 2015.

Because the Ōigawa Railway platform is short, trains of more than about four cars use selective-door operation when stopping at Kanaya. The interchange tracks between JR and the Ōigawa Railway that once carried direct trains and freight between the two companies were removed after through service and Ōigawa freight operations ended; since then the connection has only been relaid temporarily, to bring in newly purchased Ōigawa carriages.