History
Fukaya Station opened on 21 October 1883 on what is now the Takasaki Line and was carried over to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The current station building, completed in August 1996, was modelled on the red-brick Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station, using bricks from the Japan Brick Company — the same supplier whose bricks went into the original Tokyo Station façade. The station has one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, linked by a footbridge, with an elevated concourse and a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1996 building deliberately echoes Tokyo Station because both façades use bricks produced by Fukaya's Japan Brick Company, which made the bricks for Tokyo Station's Marunouchi side a century earlier.