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is a railway station in Fujieda,

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, Japan, operated by

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(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Fujieda Station is served by the

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, and is located 200.3 kilometers from the starting point of the line at

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Station layout

Fujieda Station has an

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serving Track 2 and Track 3, and a

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serving the seldom-used Track 1. The platforms are connected to the station building by an elevated station concourse. The station building has automated

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automated

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s and a staffed "

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" service counter.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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History

Fujieda Station was opened on April 16, 1889 when the section of the

connecting

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with

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was completed. The city of Fujieda did not exist at that time, and the station was located in Aoshima Village. On April 27, 1889, a senior official of the

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, Hida Hamagoro was killed while attempting to jump onto a departing

express train An express train is a type of passenger train that makes few or no stops between its origin and destination stations, usually major destinations, providing faster service than local trains that stop at many or all of the stations along their ...

from the platform of Fujieda Station. At the time, trains on the Tōkaidō Main Line had no toilets, and the accident led to their introduction on May 10 of the same year. Fujieda became an

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with the establishment of services by the (the future Shizuoka Railway Company) on November 16, 1913, and which opened a

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to Ōigawa Town in 1914. Operations of the Shizuoka Railway were discontinued at Fujieda on October 1, 1970. Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued in 1971.

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was introduced to the section of the Tōkaidō Line operated JR Central in March 2018; Fujieda Station was assigned station number CA22.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 11,362 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Fujieda City Hall

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) .

External links

* {{Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Central) Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Railway stations in Shizuoka Prefecture Tōkaidō Main Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Fujieda, Shizuoka