Musashi-Fujisawa Station (RotW)

RotW is my Railways of the Warrior project. Visiting all the Japanese train stations with Fuji in the name & the 12 castles with the original keep still standing wasn’t enough to satisfy my love of lists, so now I’m working through all the stations with Musashi in their name.

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Name in kanji : 武蔵藤沢
Kanji meaning: wisteria marsh
Station opened : 1st April, 1926
Trainlines: Seibu Ikebukuro
# Passengers daily : 23,583
Distance from CityHillsAndSea HQ: 91.6 km
Located in: Iruma, Saitama Prefecture

Things to Do

You can see some cool planes cruising on down to the airbase just up the road, there’s a curry factory that smells great & some tea fields…

… best of all, there’s a 24 hour recycle shop with retro games aplenty right next door to a games arcade.

All About Musashi Fujisawa Station

Musashi Fujisawa was the catalyst for the whole Musashi list.

Way back when I was finishing up the 52 Fujis, I discovered I’d missed ~~one~~ ~~a couple~~ several from my original list. One of these turned out to be Musashi Fujisawa and of course, me being me, I ended up making a whole new list centred around the Musashi part of the name just because.

As time was so limited in terms of finishing my Musashi list before leaving Japan, I elected to not bother revisiting Musashi-Fujisawa.

So that means, unfortunately, this is like one of those terrible episodes of your favourite show where the writers just cobbled together clips from other episodes to fill up some airtime for the least amount of cash / time / energy.

Here’s the link to the post about the original visit.