History
Fujisan Station opened on 19 June 1929 as Fuji-Yoshida Station, the original terminus of the Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway. With the Kawaguchi-ko Line opening on 24 August 1950 in a switchback layout, the station became the line's main switchback junction. The operator was renamed Fuji Kyūkō on 30 May 1960, and the station took its present name on 1 July 2011 during a renovation overseen by industrial designer Eiji Mitooka. The reopening was timed to coincide with Mount Fuji's official climbing-season start that day. Suica was introduced on 14 March 2015 and automated turnstiles followed on 22 March 2021. Following Fujikyū's rail-business split, the line and station passed to a new Fuji Sanroku Electric Railway company on 1 April 2022. The line designation switches sides here: the Ōtsuki side is the Ōtsuki Line, the Kawaguchiko side the Kawaguchiko Line. The station sits at 809 metres above sea level.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2011 renovation that gave the station its current name installed a large red torii gate over the entrance to the six-storey "Q-Sta" station building, with the station name displayed on the gate's headplate.