Shin-Fuji Railway Station
| Shin-Fuji ( 新 富士 ) | |
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 North side of the station (August 2014)
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | March 13, 1988 |
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| City / municipality | Fuji |
| prefecture | Shizuoka |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 8 '32 " N , 138 ° 39' 49" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 7 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Shin-Fuji Station ( Jap. 新富士駅 , Shin-Fuji-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu , operated by the railway company JR Central . It is located in Shizuoka Prefecture in the Fuji City area and is only served by Shinkansen trains.
description
Shin-Fuji is a four-track through station on the Tōkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line . It is oriented from east to west and is located on a viaduct that crosses an industrial and commercial zone south of the city center. There are ground level entrances on both the north and south sides of the facility, as well as parking spaces and bus stops. Shops and restaurants can mainly be found on the north side. As the only station on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, Shin-Fuji is not connected to another railway line. There is a regular bus service to Fuji Station, two kilometers away on the Tōkaidō main line .
Shin-Fuji is usually served twice per hour and direction by Kodama trains that stop at all intermediate stations. All other Shinkansen trains pass through the station without stopping on the two inner tracks. Due to the straight route, the full top speed of 285 km / h can be reached on these. There is a connection to more than a dozen bus routes operated by Fujikyū Shizuoka Bus and Fujikyū Yamanashi Bus . A touristic important express bus line leads to the fifth station on the southern slope of the Fuji volcano .
In 2016, an average of 4,744 passengers used the station every day.
Tracks
| 1 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Shin-Yokohama • Tokyo |
| 2 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Nagoya • Shin-Osaka |
history
After the Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened in 1964, Fuji did not have a high-speed train station. The first projects for this were discussed in 1970 and in December 1971 a support committee was formed with representatives from the city and the surrounding communities. However, a decade then passed with no concrete result. A committee founded in 1981, which also included regional business representatives, was more successful. It convinced the Japanese State Railways of the usefulness of a new station and on November 18, 1984, the city of Fuji approved the construction plans. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on August 4, 1985, and the actual construction work began on September 1 of the same year. As a result of the privatization of the state railway on April 1, 1987, the new company JR Central took over operational responsibility. Finally, the Shin-Fuji station was opened on March 13, 1988.
The construction costs amounted to 13,286.52 billion yen , of which the city of Fuji contributed almost half and the prefecture of Shizuoka a little more than a fifth; the remainder came from contributions from companies, organizations, private individuals and surrounding communities. In the first two years, the use of the station was above average. The reason for this was pilgrimages by the Buddhist lay movement Sōka Gakkai to the nearby Taiseki-ji , the main temple of the Nichiren Shōshū school. Both the temple and the movement had made significant financial contributions to the construction of the station. In 1991 Sōka Gakkai was excluded from the Nichiren Shōshū, whereupon the number of pilgrimages fell significantly. This in turn led to a decrease in the number of users at the station by around a fifth.
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Web links
- JR Central Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 鉄 道 運 駅 別 運. (PDF, 204 kB) In: 静岡 県 統計 年鑑 (Statistical Yearbook 2016). Shizuoka Prefecture, 2016, accessed November 30, 2018 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Fuji City Planning Department (ed.): 新 幹線 新 富士 駅 設置 ま で の 歩 み . Fuji 1989.
- ↑ History Commission Fuji (ed.): 富士 市 20 年 史 . 20 years of Fuji city. Fuji 1986, p. 1279-1280 .