Gakunan Railway Line

A Gakunan train at Yoshiwara Station, November 2011

Overview

Locale

Shizuoka Prefecture

Termini

Stations

10

Service

Type

Heavy rail

Operator(s)

Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd.

History

Opened

1936

Technical

Line length

9.2 km (5.7 mi)

Track gauge

1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

Electrification

1500 V DC overhead

Route map

Legend

					Tōkaidō Main Line
				0.0	Yoshiwara Station
					Tōkaidō Shinkansen
				1.8	Hidari-Fuji Signal
				2.3	Jatco-mae Station
				2.7	Yoshiwara-honchō Station
				3.0	Hon-Yoshiwara Station
				3.7	Tajuku Signal
				4.4	Gakunan-Harada Station
				5.4	Hina Station
				6.4	Gakunan-Fujioka Station
				7.3	Sudo Station
				8.2	Kamiya Station
					Tōkaidō Shinkansen
				9.2	Gakunan-Enoo Station

The Gakunan Railway Line (岳南電車岳南線, Gakunan Densha Gakunan-sen) is Japanese railway line between Yoshiwara and Gakunan-Enoo, all within the industrial area of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture. The line does not have any official name. This is the only railway line Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd. (岳南電車株式会社, Gakunan Densha Kabushiki-gaisha) operates.^[1] The operator company was established on April 1, 2013 as a subsidiary of the former operator Gakunan Railway (岳南鉄道, Gakunan Tetsudō), a subsidiary of Fuji Kyuko.^[2]^[3]

Stations

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Transfers	Location
No.	Station	Japanese	Between stations	Total	Transfers	Location
GD01	Yoshiwara	吉原	–	0.0	CA Tōkaidō Main Line	Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture
GD02	Jatco-mae	ジヤトコ前	2.3	2.3
GD03	Yoshiwara-honchō	吉原本町	0.4	2.7
GD04	Hon-Yoshiwara	本吉原	0.3	3.0
GD05	Gakunan-Harada	岳南原田	1.4	4.4
GD06	Hina	比奈	1.0	5.4
GD07	Gakunan-Fujioka	岳南富士岡	1.0	6.4
GD08	Sudo	須津	0.9	7.3
GD09	Kamiya	神谷	0.9	8.2
GD10	Gakunan-Enoo	岳南江尾	1.0	9.2

History

The Gakunan Railway began operations as an industrial railway named the Nissan Heavy Industrial Railroad (日産重工業専用鉄道, Nissan Jūkōgyō Senyō Tetsudō) on August 5, 1936 as part of a project to create an industrial center in Fuji city. The terminal station of the line was established at Yoshiwara Station on the Tokaido Main Line, and initial plans called for the line to be extended as far as Numazu Station. These plans were delayed by World War II and were eventually cancelled with the end of the war and breakup of the Nissan zaibatsu. The line gained its present name on December 15, 1948, after which regularly scheduled passenger service began. The electric supply for the line was upgraded from 600 Volts to the present 1,500 volts in 1969. In 1984, scheduled freight services past Sudo were discontinued.