Yoshiwara Station

Yoshiwara Station 吉原駅
Yoshiwara Station north exit in 2006
Location	Suzukawa-Honchō 14, Fuji, Shizuoka （静岡県富士市鈴川本町14） Japan
Operated by	JR Central Gakunan Electric Train Japan Freight Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line, Gakunan Railway Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1889
Previous names	Suzukawa (until 1956)
Traffic

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.

History

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.

Lines

Layout

The Tōkaidō Yoshiwara Station has a single Island platform serving Track 1 and Track 2, which are on passing loops On the outside of either track are tracks to permit the through transit of express trains. The platform is connected to the station building by an overpass. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter. The Gakunan Yoshiwara Station has a bay platform with two tracks, only one of which is in normal daily use.

Platforms

1	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Numazu・Mishima・Atami
2	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Fuji・Shizuoka

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Central Japan Railway Company
Tōkaidō Main Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Higashi-Tagonoura	Local		Fuji
Gakunan Electric Train
Gakunan Railway Line
Terminus	-	Jatco-mae

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References

Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)

Stations of the Tokaido Main Line (JR Central)

Atami Kannami Mishima Numazu Katahama Hara Higashi-Tagonoura Yoshiwara Fuji Fujikawa Shin-Kambara Kambara Yui Okitsu Shimizu Kusanagi Higashi-Shizuoka Shizuoka Abekawa Mochimune Yaizu Nishi-Yaizu Fujieda Rokugō Shimada Kanaya Kikugawa Kakegawa Aino Fukuroi Iwata Toyodachō Tenryūgawa Hamamatsu Takatsuka Maisaka Bentenjima Araimachi Washizu Shinjohara Futagawa Toyohashi Nishi-Kozakai Aichi-Mito Mikawa-Ōtsuka Mikawa-Miya Gamagōri Mikawa-Shiotsu Sangane Kōda Aimi Okazaki Nishi-Okazaki Anjō Mikawa-Anjō Higashi-Kariya Noda-Shimmachi Kariya Aizuma Ōbu Kyōwa Minami-Ōdaka Ōdaka Kasadera Atsuta Kanayama Otōbashi Nagoya Biwajima Kiyosu Inazawa Owari-Ichinomiya Kisogawa Gifu Nishi-Gifu Hozumi Ōgaki Tarui Sekigahara Kashiwabara Ōmi-Nagaoka Samegai Maibara

Mino-Akasaka Branch:	Ōgaki Arao Mino-Akasaka

Stations of the Gakunan Railway Line

Yoshiwara Jatco-mae Yoshiwara-honchō Hon-Yoshiwara Gakunan-Harada Hina Gakunan-Fujioka Sudo Kamiya Gakunan-Enoo

Coordinates: 35°8′41″N 138°42′5″E / 35.14472°N 138.70139°E / 35.14472; 138.70139

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