History
Gakunan-Fujioka Station opened on 20 December 1951 as part of the Gakunan Railway, when the line was extended from the original Yoshiwara terminus. Operation transferred to Gakunan Electric Train on 1 April 2013. A long-disused electric locomotive yard alongside the station was reopened as the "Gakutetsu Locomotive Square" public exhibit on 21 August 2021, displaying four electric locomotives — ED291, ED501, ED402 and ED403 — that previously hauled freight on the line. To accompany the exhibit, the station gained the subsidiary name "Gakutetsu Kikansha Hiroba-mae". The station is staffed only during the morning commute and uses an island platform with two tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The four electric locomotives displayed in the 2021 "Gakutetsu Locomotive Square" exhibit were re-painted to their freight-era liveries, and the cooperating preservation society raised the pantographs against intentionally de-energised overhead wires to recreate the original working appearance.