Higashi-Fujishima Station

Higashi-Fujishima Station 東藤島駅
Higashi-Fujishima Station
Location	48 Fujishima-chō, Fukui, Fukui （福井県福井市藤島町48） Japan
Operated by	Echizen Railway
Line(s)	Katsuyama Eiheiji Line
Connections
History
Opened	1914
Previous names	Fujishima (until 1929)

Higashi-Fujishima Station (東藤島駅, Higashi-Fujishima-eki) is an Echizen Railway Katsuyama Eiheiji Line railway station located in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

Station

All Katsuyama Eiheiji Line trains serve Higashi-Fujishima Station. One track serves a single platform, and the station is unstaffed.

Surrounding area

There is a cluster of homes and businesses around the station, with rice fields further away. Fukui City Higashi-Fujishima Elementary School is across the street.
Fukui Prefectural Route 164 is outside the station's east exit; National Route 416 passes to the south.

History

February 11, 1914: Fujishima Station (藤島駅)　opens.
By 1929: Fujishima Station renamed to Higashi-Fujishima Station.
June 25, 2001: Operations halted due to accident on the Echizen Main Line.
July 20, 2003: Station reopens as an Echizen Railway station.

Adjacent stations

Stations of the Echizen Railway Katsuyama Eiheiji Line

Fukui Shin-Fukui Fukuiguchi Echizen-Kaihotsu Echizen-Shinbo Oiwakeguchi Higashi-Fujishima Echizen-Shimabashi Kannonmachi Matsuoka Shiizakai Eiheijiguchi Shimoshii Kōmyōji Domeki Echizen-Nonaka Sannō Echizen-Takehara Kobunato Hota Hossaka Hishima Katsuyama

Coordinates: 36°05′12″N 136°16′11″E / 36.086687°N 136.26981°E / 36.086687; 136.26981

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