Fuji (Shizuoka)

Fuji (Japanese富士 市, -shi ) is a city in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan at the foot of the mountain of the same name.

Geography

In the south of the city is limited by the Suruga Bay on the Pacific coast and in the north the city territory extends to the foot of Mount Fuji zoom. The eastern boundary is formed by the mountain Ashitaka (爱 鹰山). The river flows through the Fuji western part of the city below Fujinomiya from north to south.

History

The city was founded in 1954 from the community Fuji (富士 町, chō ) and two villages (田 子 浦村and岩松 村) was formed in 1966, it merged with the city of Yoshiwara and the community Takaoka (鹰 冈 町, chō ), 2001, she received the status of a city with special status (特例 市, Tokureishi ).

Traffic

• Street: Tomei Expressway and since 2012 also the Shin- Tomei highway, towards Tokyo or Nagoya
• National Highway 1, towards Tokyo or Kyoto

• JR Tōkaidō Shinkansen stops at Shin- Fuji.
• JR Tōkaidō Main Line, Tokyo
• JR Minobu- line, after Kōfu
• Gakunan railway line between the Yoshiwara Station (吉 原 駅) on the Tōkaidō Main Line, and the terminus Gakunan - Enoo (岳南江 尾 駅); the almost 10 km long route is from the Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd.. operated

Sons and daughters of the town

• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi ( b. 1975 ), football player
• Daigo Kobayashi ( b. 1983 ), football player
• Yoji Totsuka (1942-2008), Physicist

Adjacent Cities and Towns

• Numazu
• Shizuoka
• Fujinomiya
• Susono
• Gotenba
• Shibakawa
• Nagaizumi