History
Jōei Station opened on 30 March 1928 as Saijō-Jōei Station on the Fuji-Minobu Railway, in present-day Shōwa, Nakakoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture, and is 78.9 kilometres from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji. It was shortened to Jōei on 1 October 1938 and the line was leased to the Ministry of Railways the same day, becoming fully nationalised on 1 May 1941. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1960, parcel handling on 20 September 1972, and the station became unattended from 1 June 1983. Operation passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and TOICA IC-card acceptance is scheduled to begin on 1 October 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tickets are not normally sold at the unattended station, but the shuttered ticket window briefly reopens once a year so that residents can buy tickets for the Shinmei Fireworks Festival held in Ichikawamisato every 7 August.