Yoshiwara Station ( 吉原駅 , Yoshiwara-eki ) is an interchange railway station in the city Fuji , Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (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 .
7-406: The Gakunan Railway Line ( 岳南電車岳南線 , Gakunan Densha Gakunan-sen ) is a Japanese railway line between Yoshiwara and Gakunan-Enoo , all within the industrial area of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture . The line does not have any official name. This is the only railway line Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd. ( 岳南電車株式会社 , Gakunan Densha Kabushiki-gaisha ) operates. The operator company
14-489: The Gakunan Railway Line . JR Yoshiwara Station has a single island platform 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 staffed ticket office. The Gakunan Electric Railway portion of
21-615: The old Tōkaidō on April 10, 1956. The present station building dates from 1970. Container freight services began operations from 1994. Station numbering was introduced to the section of the Tōkaidō Line operated JR Central in March 2018; Yoshiwara Station was assigned station number CA07. In fiscal 2017, the JR station was used by an average of 3358 passengers daily and the Gakunan station
28-546: The line was established at Yoshiwara Station on the Tokaido Main Line , and initial plans called for the line to be extended as far as Numazu Station . These plans were delayed by World War II and were eventually cancelled with the end of the war and breakup of the Nissan zaibatsu . The line gained its present name on December 15, 1948, after which regularly scheduled passenger service began. The electric supply for
35-474: The line was upgraded from 600 Volts to the present 1,500 volts in 1969. In 1984, scheduled freight services past Sudo were discontinued. All freight services were discontinued on March 16, 2012. Yoshiwara Station Yoshiwara Station is served by the JR Tōkai Tōkaidō Main Line , and is located 141.3 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo . It is the terminus of
42-540: The station has a bay platform with two tracks, only one of which is in normal daily use. Yoshiwara Station first opened as Suzukawa Station ( 鈴川駅 , Suzukawa-eki ) on February 1, 1889, when the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line 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 on
49-560: Was established on April 1, 2013 as a subsidiary of the former operator Gakunan Railway ( 岳南鉄道 , Gakunan Tetsudō ) , a subsidiary of Fuji Kyuko . The Gakunan Railway began operations as an industrial railway named the Nissan Heavy Industrial Railroad ( 日産重工業専用鉄道 , Nissan Jūkōgyō Senyō Tetsudō ) on August 5, 1936 as part of a project to create an industrial center in Fuji city. The terminal station of
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