History
Minobu Station is on the JR Central Minobu Line in the town of Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, 43.5 km from the line's southern terminus at Fuji. The station opened on 18 May 1920 as the terminus of the original Fuji-Minobu Railway, with both passenger and freight service. The line was extended north to Ichikawa-Daimon on 17 December 1927, leased to the Ministry of Railways from 1 October 1938 and fully nationalised on 1 May 1941. A new station building was completed on 8 June 1980. Freight handling ended on 16 January 1984 and parcel service on 14 March 1985. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central at JNR's privatisation, and in 1999 it was named to the Kantō Station 100 Selection.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Minobu is the gateway to the head temple of the Nichiren sect, Kuon-ji on Mount Minobu, and the surrounding Shōnin-dōri shopping street was rebuilt in 1999 with façades styled to a unified Japanese design.