History
Shin-Fuji Station opened on 13 March 1988 as a citizen-petitioned (request) station on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, in Kawanarijima, Fuji, Shizuoka. The 13.3-billion-yen project was funded with roughly half from the city of Fuji and the remainder from Shizuoka Prefecture and surrounding municipalities. Only Kodama trains have ever stopped there. It is the only Tōkaidō Shinkansen station with no connecting rail line; the nearest conventional station, Fuji on the Tōkaidō Main Line, is about 2 km north and is linked by frequent buses. Automatic gates were introduced in 1998 and the ASTY Shin-Fuji concourse retail block opened in 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's platforms have full-height glass walls so that train passengers passing through still get an unobstructed view of Mount Fuji, the landmark for which the stop was lobbied into existence.