History
Higashikatsura Station opened on 19 June 1929 on what is now the Fujikyū Line in the city of Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture. The staffed station has two staggered side platforms connected by a level crossing, with the wooden single-storey station building on the southern side. Operations were contracted out in 1971 and the Suica IC card began functioning here on 14 March 2015. Following Fuji Kyūkō's rail-business split on 1 April 2022, the station passed to the newly-spun-off Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway. From a December 2005 timetable change, except for crossing meets, services on both directions use platform 1, treating the route as a one-line through-running operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Cherry trees lining the platform 2 side bloom each spring; while the 5000-series "Thomas Land" trains were in service, in-cabin displays showed the Higashikatsura cherry blossoms as the station illustration in place of the usual station-building photograph.