History
Akaike Station opened on 1 July 1952 as Gujō-Akaike (郡上赤池) Station on the Japanese National Railways' Etsumi-Nan Line, as a passenger-only unstaffed infill station, in what is now the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture. When the Etsumi-Nan Line was transferred from JNR to the third-sector Nagaragawa Railway on 11 December 1986, it was renamed simply Akaike (赤池). It is station 22 on the line. The station consists of a single side platform and remains unstaffed; a beverage vending machine on the platform was eventually removed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Akaike is one of a cluster of small Etsumi-Nan Line stations (Yasaka, Fukuno, Akaike, Kamono and Sekiguchi) that opened together on 1 July 1952 as JNR added infill halts between the earlier prewar stations along the Nagara River valley.