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Higashi Fujishima Station

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Operated by
  
Echizen Railway

Previous names
  
Fujishima (until 1929)

Opened
  
1914

Line(s)
  
Katsuyama Eiheiji Line

Address
  
Japan

Higashi-Fujishima Station

Location
  
48 Fujishima-chō, Fukui, Fukui （福井県福井市藤島町48） Japan

Similar
  
Oiwakeguchi Station, Echizen‑Shimabashi Station, Echizen‑Shinbo Station, Nakatsuno Station, Kannonmachi Station

Higashi-Fujishima Station (東藤島駅, Higashi-Fujishima-eki) is an Echizen Railway Katsuyama Eiheiji Line railway station located in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

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Station

All Katsuyama Eiheiji Line trains serve Higashi-Fujishima Station. One track serves a single platform, and the station is unstaffed.

Surrounding area

  • There is a cluster of homes and businesses around the station, with rice fields further away. Fukui City Higashi-Fujishima Elementary School is across the street.
  • Fukui Prefectural Route 164 is outside the station's east exit; National Route 416 passes to the south.

    • History

  • February 11, 1914: Fujishima Station (藤島駅)　opens.
  • By 1929: Fujishima Station renamed to Higashi-Fujishima Station.
  • June 25, 2001: Operations halted due to accident on the Echizen Main Line.
  • July 20, 2003: Station reopens as an Echizen Railway station.

    • References

    Higashi-Fujishima Station Wikipedia
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