Hiratsuka Station

Hiratsuka Station (平塚駅, Hiratsuka-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The station building has large shopping complexes to the north and south of the tracks.

Hiratsuka Station was opened on July 11, 1887, for both freight and passenger service on what was later designated the Tokaido Main Line of Japanese National Railways (JNR).

The original station building was destroyed by soil liquefaction during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which also brought down the bridge over the nearby Sagami River.

With the dissolution and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company.

Station platforms from above, 2021