Yoshiwara Station
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Yoshiwara Station
吉原駅 |
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Yoshiwara Station north exit in 2006
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| Location | Suzukawa-Honchō 14, Fuji, Shizuoka （静岡県富士市鈴川本町14） Japan |
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| Line(s) | Tōkaidō Main Line, Gakunan Railway Line |
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| History | |
| Opened | 1889 |
| Previous names | Suzukawa (until 1956) |
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| Passengers (2006) | 3,221 (JR), 922 (Gakunan) daily |
Yoshiwara Station (吉原駅 Yoshiwara-eki?) is an interchange railway station in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station is 141.3 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station. Yoshiwara is on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company and is a terminal station for the Gakunan Railway Line of the Gakunan Electric Train and a freight terminal of the Japan Freight Railway Company.
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 the old Tōkaidō on April 10, 1956. The present station building dates from 1970. Container freight services began operations from 1994.
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