History
Zenshōji Station opened on 9 May 1931 on the Takayama Main Line in the city of Gero, Gifu Prefecture, when the line was extended from Gero to Hida-Hagiwara. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. The unstaffed stop lies 93.5 kilometres from the line's official starting point at Gifu. It consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track, with a passing loop alongside that allows limited-express trains to overtake but where the main track itself is the through line, so ordinary trains stop on the platform side only.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station takes its name from the nearby Zenshō-ji, the chief Zen temple of the Gero district and one of the medieval Tenka Jissatsu group of ten temples designated by the Ashikaga shogunate.