A Mushroom-Shaped Platform Shelter
The Gakunan Railway Honyoshiwara Station Platform and Platform Shelter (岳南電車本吉原駅プラットホーム及びホーム上屋) is a station platform with its shelter of 1950 in Imaizumi, Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on June 24, 2021 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
The Agency records a concrete platform 55 metres long and a steel shelter of 1968 roofed in slate, covering 153 square metres; registration number 22-0290.
The Original Platform and a Later Shelter
This is the platform built when the station opened, with a shelter added later (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The island platform, faced at the sides with squared stone, consists of a platform 50 metres long and a ramp at its west end.
According to Fuji City's newsletter, the line between Yoshiwara-honcho and Yoshiwara stations opened in November 1950, and the station was renamed Honyoshiwara in January 1956.
Why It Was Registered
The Agency notes the inventive shelter, whose frame of bent steel-tube brackets, posts and roof arches is welded into a mushroom shape, and says it is well loved by local people; it was registered as a model of design.
What to Look For
Look for the mushroom-shaped frame of bent and welded steel tube, and the squared-stone sides of the platform (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Visiting
It is a working station on the Gakunan Railway. No special visiting information was found.
Q&A
- When were the platform and shelter built?
- The platform in 1950 and the shelter in 1968 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
- What is special about the shelter?
- Its mushroom-shaped frame of bent, welded steel tube.
- When was the station renamed?
- In January 1956, from Yoshiwara to Honyoshiwara (Fuji City).
- Where is it?
- In Imaizumi, Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
- When was the Gakunan Railway Honyoshiwara Station Platform and Platform Shelter registered?
- On June 24, 2021 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Basic Information
| Name | Gakunan Railway Honyoshiwara Station Platform and Platform Shelter (岳南電車本吉原駅プラットホーム及びホーム上屋) |
|---|---|
| Location | 1-64-1 Imaizumi, Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture |
| Designation | Registered Tangible Cultural Property (Structure) |
| Year Designated | Registered 2021/06/24 (Reiwa 3) |
| Quantity | 1 platform and 1 platform shelter |
| Dimensions | Platform: concrete, 55 m long; shelter: steel, slate roof, 153 m² |
| Owner | Gakunan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and Gakunan Railway Co., Ltd. |
| Public Access | Working station (no special visiting information) |
References
- Gakunan Railway Honyoshiwara Station Platform and Platform Shelter (Database of National Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs)
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00013797
- Koho Fuji, May 11, 2022 (Fuji City newsletter, Japanese)
- https://www.city.fuji.shizuoka.jp/documents/6073/rn2ola000004919o.pdf
Last verified: 2026.10.20