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52 Fujis # 8 - Fujimigaoka

Fujimigaoka is a suburb of Tokyo, and you can find it on the Keio line - one of the private train lines in Japan, owned by a supermarket company - the plan being that you can use their train to come to their shop, grab your groceries and pop back home. Although it seems bizarre that so many train stations are at the bottom of department stores, you can’t knock the convenience. Trains in Japan are built to be convenient; and they’re allowed to give a big two fingers to everyone else. I’ve never seen so many level crossings, and I’d never seen any that are only up for a minute before slamming down again before I came here. It’s awesome - whoooosh goes the train. Bing Bing Bing. Up goes the bar. Five cars go through, a heap of pedestrians potter across. Then - Bing Bing Bing. Down comes the bar again. Repeat ad infinitum.

Behind the level crossing in Fujimigaoka, you can see the mountain the name comes from. Well, kind of:

This brought a smile to my face, seeing as, just as with the last Fuji, this one also has the same kanji as the mountain. And just as with the last Fuji, the place name is all about being able to see Fuji from a hill. And once more, I couldn’t see a hill. Or Fuji. Seems like the local council went for a stop gap measure, just in case the name ever lost its meaning for any reason.

There was little in Fujimigaoka, except for a park. And a lot of old school shops:

But there weren’t only old school shops - the ubiquitous Mos Burger was there too. And a Doutor Coffee Shop.