History
Kasei Station opened on 19 June 1929 on the Fujikyuko Line in the city of Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, 5.6 km from the line terminus at Ōtsuki. Day-to-day station operations were contracted out from August 1978. Suica acceptance began on 14 March 2015, and on 1 April 2022 the station passed to Fujisan Express Electric Railway after Fuji Kyuko spun off its rail division. The staffed layout consists of two opposing side platforms with the station building on the south (down) side. Notably, Kasei holds the only footbridge on the Fujikyuko Line, used to reach the no. 2 platform. Because the platforms are only three cars long, four-car services use door-cut on the rearmost car.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Every year, recruits at the Japan Coast Guard's Haneda Special Rescue Base set out from Kasei Station on foot for the 100 km march back to base — a long-standing initiation tradition.