Shimo-Soga

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Shimo-Soga Station began on 1 May 1911 as a signal stop on the Tōkaidō Main Line between Kōzu and Matsuda, was redesignated a signal station in April 1922, and opened to passenger and freight traffic as a full station on 15 May 1922. The original building was destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake of 1 September 1923. When the Tanna Tunnel opened in December 1934, the Kōzu–Numazu segment was rebranded as the Gotemba Line, leaving Shimo-Soga on a local route. Regular freight handling ended on 21 August 1962 and resumed on 1 October 1967 over private sidings, at about the time the Sumitomo Cement Shimo-Soga service station opened; in its final years the traffic used the Taiheiyō Cement siding, and cement shipments ceased in 1998. The station passed to JR Central at the 1987 privatisation, with JR Freight holding nominal rights.

Shimo-Soga is the easternmost JR Central station on a conventional line, and the only one belonging to a Kantō-area city that is exclusively under JR Central jurisdiction.