History
Gujō-Yamato Station sits on the Nagaragawa Railway Etsumi-Nan Line at Tsurugi-aza-Ogura, Yamato-chō, Gujō City, Gifu Prefecture, with station number 29. It opened on 9 July 1932 as the temporary terminus Mino-Yatomi Station when the Railway Ministry extended the Etsumi-Nan Line from Gujō-Hachiman, and was extended onward to Mino-Shirotori on 5 July 1933. It came under the management of Mino-Shirotori Station in June 1961, lost freight service on 1 October 1974, was placed under simplified commission in April 1975, ended parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and became unstaffed on 1 April 1985. On 11 December 1986 it transferred to Nagaragawa Railway with the Etsumi-Nan Line, was renamed Gujō-Yamato — reflecting its location at the centre of Yamato-chō — and was reconfigured as a passing-loop station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
The wooden station building houses the café "Kissa Nagara", which is operated separately and does not handle ticket sales or other railway business. Because the platforms are staggered and connected only by a level crossing in the middle, the entry/departure signals are mounted on the "forward direction" side only, making it impossible to depart in the reverse direction from either platform.