All trains including the sleeper limited express Sunrise Seto and Sunrise Izumo stop here, and it is the starting and ending point of the limited express Fujikawa.

The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles, and a crewed "Green Window" service counter.

A grand opening ceremony had been planned, but on this day a huge fire destroyed over 1,000 buildings in downtown Shizuoka.

Railroad Minister Inoue Masaru cancelled his planned visit, and later the same day, the town around Gotemba Station, also in Shizuoka Prefecture, burned down.

The station underwent a massive rebuilding program from the late 1970s, with the Tōkaidō Main Line tracks elevated in 1979 to the same level as the Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks, and the Parche shopping centre/new station building completed in 1981.