History
Fujie Station opened on 19 August 1923 with the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway, about 200 m east of the present site. A separate seasonal stop opened at the current location on 21 November 1928 to serve the nearby Fujie Racecourse, operating only on race days. The seasonal stop closed in 1938 when the racecourse shut, and in 1943 it was upgraded into the permanent Fujie Station, replacing the original. Operations passed to Ujigawa Electric in 1927 and to Sanyō Electric Railway on 6 June 1933. The station was a limited-express stop from April 1949 until that status lapsed in March 1984; commuter limited-stops returned in December 1987, and a side track for express overtakes was added in August 1989.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original station building was a converted ticket office from the long-defunct Fujie Racecourse — the structure was used for everyday rail tickets until a replacement station building was completed on 7 December 1985.