Fujikawa Station — Local services in Fuji

典型的な通勤の駅 Typical commuter railway station For the railway buffs: Fujikawa Station first opened as Iwabuchi Station (岩淵駅 Iwabuchi-eki) on February 1 1889, when the section of the Tookaidoo Main Line connecting Shizuoka with Kōzu was completed. The initial plan for the Tōkaidō Main Line was to construct stations in accord with the traditional 53 stages of the Tōkaidō road. However, in between Fujikawa-juku and Kanbara-juku there was a traditionally unnumbered intermediary post station where a branch road led to the pilgrimage location of Mount Minobu. It was decided to build a railroad station at this location, and to bypass nearby Kambara Town instead. This led to a predictable uproar from Kambara, so Kambara Station was built a year later, but at an inconvenient distance outside of town, so as to keep the spacing between stations fairly even. A station in the center of Kambara was not actually built until Shin-Kambara Station in 1968. Iwabuchi Station was renamed “Fujikawa” in 1970. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1972, and all freight services by 1985. Fujikawa Station has a single side platform serving Track 1 and an island platform serving Track 2 and Track 3, connected to the station building by an overpass. Track 2 is used for through transit of express trains. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned “Green Window”...

Pequeña estación en un pequeño pueblecito en la prefectura de Shizuoka. No destaca por nada salvo por el hecho de que paseando desde allí unos 15 minutos llegamos a un punto desde el que tenemos unas vistas impresionantes de los shinkansen circulando por delante del monte Fuji y pasando por unos...

Good access to views of Fuji. There are no lockers, so travel light. Area is mix of...