Kofu

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Kōfu Station opened on 11 June 1903 as the terminus of a government railway extension from Hajikano (today's Kai-Yamato) and was extended to Nirasaki on 15 December the same year. The original station building burned down on 19 March 1924, after a stove in the waiting room caught fire, and a second-generation building opened on 4 April 1925. In March 1928 the privately owned Fuji-Minobu Railway connected Ichikawa-Daimon to Kōfu, a line nationalised on 1 May 1941 as the Minobu Line. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984 and an overhead station building opened on 21 August the same year. The 1 April 1987 privatisation placed Chūō Main Line operations under JR East and the Minobu Line under JR Central, making Kōfu a boundary station between the two operators.

The station building sits on the former site of Kōfu Castle's Shimizu-guruwa enclosure on the north side of the castle grounds, which contained turrets, a study hall and gates; the enclosure was ringed by the castle's inner moat, and after the castle was abolished in the Meiji era the second moat was filled in and the former samurai quarter sold off and redeveloped as government office land.