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Fujikoshi Station

railway station in Toyama, Toyama prefecture, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5507428
Source-derived summary

Fujikoshi Station (不二越駅, Fujikoshi-eki) is a railway station in the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Toyama Chihō Railway.

Lines

Fujikoshi Station is served by the Toyama Chihō Railway Fujikoshi Line, and is 1.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Inarimachi.

Station layout

The station has one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is staffed during weekday mornings only.

History

Fujikoshi Station was opened on 6 December 1914.

Adjacent stations

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by 407 passengers daily.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fujikoshi Station” is railway station in Toyama, Toyama prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fujikoshi, Station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-12-06. For this dossier, Fujikoshi, Station and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Toyama, Toyama prefecture, Japan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5507428. Authority coordinates are 36.688, 137.233. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914 and 2015.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fujikoshi Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fujikoshi Station primary sources, Fujikoshi Station archive and Fujikoshi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fujikoshi Station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Fujikoshi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.