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in the city of

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Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

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operated by

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(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Fujikawa Station is served by the JR Central

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, and is located 149.7 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at .

Station layout

Fujikawa Station has a single

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serving Track 1 and an

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serving Track 2 and Track 3, connected to the station building by a footbridge. Track 2 is used for through transit of express trains. The station is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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Station history

Fujikawa Station first opened as on February 1, 1889, when the section of the

connecting Shizuoka with Kōzu was completed. The initial plan for the Tōkaidō Main Line was to construct stations in accord with the traditional 53

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of the Tōkaidō road. However, in between Fujikawa-juku and

Kanbara-juku was the fifteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Shimizu-ku ward of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of four former post stations located in Shimizu-ku. History The origi ...

there was a traditionally unnumbered intermediary post station where a branch road led to the

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location of

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. 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 is a railway station in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai). Lines Kambara Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 154.9 kilometers from the star ...

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 is a railway station in Shimizu-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai). Lines Shin-Kambara Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 152.5 kilometers from the star ...

in 1968. Iwabuchi Station was renamed "Fujikawa" in 1970.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1484 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Fujikawa Post Office

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) .

External links

Official home page
{{Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Central) Railway stations in Shizuoka Prefecture Tōkaidō Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Fuji, Shizuoka