Fukugami Station

Fukugami Station (福神駅, Fukugami-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Ōyodo, Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company, Kintetsu Railway. Fukugami Station is served by the Yoshino Line and is 12.8 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Kashiharajingū-mae and 52.5 kilometers from Ōsaka Abenobashi. The station consists of two opposing side platforms and two tracks. In 1999, when Kintetsu developed a new town around Fukujin Station, the station underwent extensive renovations and was reborn as an elevated station building with a "British pastoral design".The station building is located on the bridge, and is connected to the platform by elevator. The elevator connecting the inside-ticket concourse and the outbound platform is a rare type called an "inside-outside shared type" that also connects the outside-ticket concourse and the east side of the station, and this station was the first in Japan to have one like this. The station opened on 11 May 1924 on the Yoshino Railway. The Yoshino Railway merged with the Osaka Electric Tramway on 1 August 1929, which in turn merged with the Sangu Express Railway on 15 March 1941 to form the Kansai Express Railway. The Kansai Express Rail merged with Nankai Railway on 1 June 1944 to form the Kintetsu Railway Yoshino Line In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1374 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Media related to Fukugami Station at Wikimedia Commons