History
Sudo Station opened on 20 January 1953 as a stop on the Gakunan Railway Line, taking its name from the former village of Suto. A dedicated siding once carried freight for the Fukusen Brewing chemical plant west of the station, but this and connections for Tsurumi Soda and Harima Chemicals were progressively abandoned. The siding for the Harima Chemicals tank cars closed in April 1989, ending all scheduled freight working through the station. Operation passed from Gakunan Railway to Gakunan Electric Train on 1 April 2013. The former station building has been removed, the sidings have been redeveloped as housing and road, and the unstaffed station now consists only of a single island platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
A short hike north of Sudo leads to Suto Lake, historically counted as one of the "Eight Lakes of Fuji" (Fuji-hakkai) — eight small bodies of water around the foot of Mount Fuji once invoked together in pilgrimage tradition.