The gateway to Shizuoka City.
There are tourist information centers at both the north and south exits of the station, attracting many tourists.
On May 19, 2020, a statue of Lord Yoshimoto Imagawa was unveiled in the plaza at the north exit of JR Shizuoka Station.
There are three statues of Ieyasu Tokugawa: one of him as a child, one of him as a man, and one of him as a man.
Near the statues, there is a manhole with a design of "Imagawa-san," a local character modeled after Lord Yoshimoto Imagawa .