Iwata Station (Shizuoka)

Iwata Station (磐田駅, Iwata-eki) is a railway station in the city of Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).

Iwata Station was built as Nakaizumi Station (中泉駅, Nakaizumi-eki) on April 16, 1889, when the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line connecting Shizuoka with Hamamatsu was completed.

Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued on February 26, 1996; however, occasional freight trains operated by the Japan Freight Railway Company stopped at a rail siding at Iwata to service the industrial zone to the east of the station.

A large bus terminal was established at the south exit of the station in 2006.

A statue of the local football club Júbilo Iwata's mascot, Júbilo-kun, modeled on the black-tailed flycatcher, stands prominently in front of the station's north exit.

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