History
The station opened on 1 December 1961 as simply "Highland Station" (ハイランド駅)—at the time the first station in Japan signed entirely in katakana. It was contracted out to an agent in June 1978 and renamed Fujikyu-Highland Station on 11 January 1981. Suica IC-card service began on 14 March 2015. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Reverend Awdry's Railway Series, the station building and platform were renovated in March 2020 and the sub-name "Thomas Land" introduced; on-platform toilets were installed in June 2020. On 1 April 2022 the line was transferred from Fuji Kyuko to the new Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Fujikyu-Highland is the gateway station for the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, so all trains—including limited expresses such as the "Fuji Excursion," "Fujisan" and "Mount Fuji View Express"—stop here. Although the station building stands inside the park's Second Entrance, the highway-bus stop at Fuji-Q Highland is on the far side of the resort at the First Entrance, a noticeable walk away.