is an
interchange railway station
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in the city
Fuji Fuji may refer to:
Places China
* Fuji, Xiangcheng City (付集镇), town in Xiangcheng City, Henan
Japan
* Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan
* Fuji River
* Fuji, Saga, town in Saga Prefecture
* Fuji, Shizuoka, city in Shizuoka Prefectur ...
,
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 ...
,
Japan
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operated by the
Central Japan Railway Company
is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...
(JR Tōkai). It is also a terminus for the private railway operator
Gakunan Electric Train Company and a freight terminal of the
Japan Freight Railway Company
, or , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughout Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku Station.
The Japan Railways Group was foun ...
.
Lines
Yoshiwara Station is served by the JR Tōkai
Tōkaidō Main Line
The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...
, and is located 141.3 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at . It is the terminus of the
Gakunan Railway Line
The is Japanese railway line between and , all within the industrial area of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture. The line does not have any official name. This is the only railway line operates. The operator company was established on April 1, 2013 a ...
.
Layout
JR Yoshiwara Station has a single
island platform
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serving Track 1 and Track 2, which are on
passing loops On the outside of either track are tracks to permit the through transit of express trains. The platform is connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is attended and has a ''
Midori no Madoguchi
, which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...
'' staffed ticket office. The Gakunan Electric Railway portion of the station has a
bay platform
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Overview
Bay and islan ...
with two tracks, only one of which is in normal daily use.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
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History
Yoshiwara Station first opened as on February 1, 1889, when the section of the
Tōkaidō Main Line
The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...
connecting Shizuoka with
Kōzu was completed. It became a terminus for the Gakunan Railway on November 18, 1949 and was renamed Yoshiwara Station (after
Yoshiwara-juku
was the fourteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The Yoshiwara-juku Festival is held each year in October and November in Fuji, showing visitors the are ...
on the
old Tōkaidō on April 10, 1956. The present station building dates from 1970.
Container freight services began operations from 1994.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2017, the JR station was used by an average of 3358 passengers daily and the Gakunan station was used by an average of 2016 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
*
Japan National Route 1
is a major highway on the island of Honshū in Japan. It connects Chūō, Tokyo in the Kantō region with the city of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture in the Kansai region, passing through the Chūbu region en route. It follows the old Tōkaidō west ...
*Tagonoura Port
See also
*
List of Railway Stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
*
Railway stations
Japan
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References
*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) .
External links
JR Central Station Information
{{Gakunan Railway Line
Railway stations in Shizuoka Prefecture
Tōkaidō Main Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889
Stations of Central Japan Railway Company
Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company
Fuji, Shizuoka