History
Fuji Station opened on 21 April 1909 as a Japanese Government Railways station on the Tōkaidō Main Line, twenty years after the surrounding section between Numazu and Shizuoka was completed without it. The local Kashima-village campaign, supported by the Oji Paper Company that had built a mill nearby, secured the new stop. Fuji became the southern terminus of what became the Minobu Line on 20 July 1913, electrification followed in 1949, and the present elevated station building dates from 1964. With the 1987 break-up of Japanese National Railways the station passed jointly to JR Central and JR Freight, and TOICA IC service was introduced in 2008.
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
Despite being Fuji City's main rail gateway, the station is not the closest stop to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen — Shin-Fuji Station opened in 1988 about 2 km to the south with no direct rail connection between the two.