Shimada

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Shimada Station opened on 16 April 1889 when the government railway between Shizuoka and Hamamatsu was completed, handling both passengers and freight as a general station. The privately built Shimada Tramway began connecting service on 13 April 1898 and operated until its abolition on 30 September 1959. Regularly scheduled freight ended in 1984, with chartered freight to the Tokai Pulp paper plant continuing until 1993. JR Central and JR Freight succeeded the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Construction of a north–south concourse and overhead station building began on 2 June 2006, completed on 28 February 2008; TOICA service began on 1 March 2008 and the station-plaza works finished in March 2009.

Until 2004 an ordinary (local) train ran from Shimada all the way to Tokyo; the service was withdrawn at the 16 October 2004 timetable revision.