Fujikawa Station (Shizuoka)

Fujikawa Station 富士川駅
JR Fujikawa Station in 2007
Location	Naka-no-go 1228-4, Fuji, Shizuoka （静岡県富士市中之郷1228-4） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1889
Previous names	Iwabuchi (until 1970)
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	1,765 daily

Fujikawa Station (富士川駅, Fujikawa eki^?) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station is 149.7 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Fujikawa Station first opened as Iwabuchi Station (岩淵駅, Iwabuchi-eki^?) on February 1 1889, when the section of the Tōkaidō 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.