Station

Mt Fuji

富士山

Mt Fuji
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Fujisan Station opened on 19 June 1929 as Fuji-Yoshida Station, the original terminus of the Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway. With the Kawaguchi-ko Line opening on 24 August 1950 in a switchback layout, the station became the line's main switchback junction. The operator was renamed Fuji Kyūkō on 30 May 1960, and the station took its present name on 1 July 2011 during a renovation overseen by industrial designer Eiji Mitooka. The reopening was timed to coincide with Mount Fuji's official climbing-season start that day. Suica was introduced on 14 March 2015 and automated turnstiles followed on 22 March 2021. Following Fujikyū's rail-business split, the line and station passed to a new Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway company on 1 April 2022. The line designation switches sides here: the Ōtsuki side is the Ōtsuki Line, the Kawaguchiko side the Kawaguchiko Line. The station sits at 809 metres above sea level.

Notes

The 2011 renovation that gave the station its current name installed a large red torii gate over the entrance to the six-storey "Q-Sta" station building, with the station name displayed on the gate's headplate.

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