Shibakawa

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Shibakawa Station opened on 1 March 1915 as the terminus of the Fuji-Minobu Railway, handling both passengers and freight from a site in present-day Fujinomiya, Shizuoka. The line was extended past the station to Toshima on 10 August 1918. The private operator was leased to the state in 1938 and fully nationalised on 1 May 1941, after which the line became the Minobu Line. Freight service ended in September 1972 and parcel handling in February 1984. JR Central inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. When the Fujikawa express service was upgraded to a limited express in October 1995 the station lost its stop, and the building was de-staffed in 1998 and rebuilt in 2012.

A large Oji Specialty Paper plant stands immediately behind Shibakawa Station, and the station still keeps three sidings, among them the headshunt that lets express trains pass its single island platform — even though the Fujikawa, upgraded to a limited express in 1995, no longer stops here.