Station

Furusho

古庄

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Furusho
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Furushō Station serves the Shizuoka–Shimizu Line of the Shizuoka Railway in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, 3.8 kilometres from the line's terminus at Shin-Shizuoka. It opened on 9 December 1908. The station has two opposed side platforms but no internal connection between them — there is no level crossing, footbridge or underpass within the fare-paid zone — so passengers must use separate ticket gates on each platform. A new station building entered service on 13 January 2024, eliminating the old in-platform crossing and dividing the up and down concourses entirely. Until the timetable revision of 31 March 1996 the station was an express stop; express service then ceased entirely until 2011, after which express trains pass through and only commuter-express trains towards Shin-Shizuoka stop here.

Notes

There is no way at all to cross between the two platforms inside the ticket gates, so a passenger who mistakenly gets off on the platform for the opposite direction must either leave through the gates and use the level crossing between the station buildings, or ride on to the next station and come back.

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