History
Fujino-ushijima Station opened on 1 October 1930 as Ushijima Signal Box on the Sōbu Railway's new Shimizu-kōen–Kasukabe extension of the Noda Line. It was upgraded to a full station as Ushijima on 1 March 1931 and renamed Fujino-ushijima just four days later on 5 March 1931, the new name drawing attention to the nearby Ushijima Wisteria, a Special National Natural Monument. The 1944 wartime merger brought it into the Tōbu Railway network, and the station's daily operations were outsourced to Tōbu Station Services in December 2009. An elevator and accessible toilet were added on 15 December 2010, ahead of a 2015 platform-side safety upgrade.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1931 rename from Ushijima to Fujino-ushijima was a marketing move: it added the kanji for "wisteria" so the station would read as the gateway to the nearby Ushijima Wisteria, a Special National Natural Monument.