History
Shimoyoshida Station opened on 19 June 1929 as a Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway stop, became a Fuji Kyukō station with the operator's 1960 rename, and joined the new Fuji Sanroku Denki Tetsudō entity on 1 April 2022 after Fuji Kyukō spun off its rail business. Freight was dropped in 1978 and staff functions outsourced the same year. A renovation overseen by industrial designer Eiji Mitooka completed on 18 July 2009, and the adjacent Blue Train Terrace, displaying former JR sleeping car SuHaNeFu 14-20 and other rolling stock, opened on 29 April 2011 before closing on 17 April 2026. The station sits in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, with station number FJ14.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since December 2021 the train-approach jingles at the station have used clips of "Wakamono no Subete" and "Akane-iro no Yūhi" by the rock band Fujifabric, whose members hail from Fujiyoshida.