Shirakawaguchi

History

Shirakawaguchi Station opened on 16 March 1926 on the Takayama Main Line in the town of Shirakawa, Kamo District, Gifu Prefecture, 53.1 km from the line's official starting point at Gifu. It was absorbed into the JR Central network on 1 April 1987 with the dissolution of Japanese National Railways. The station has one ground-level island platform and one ground-level side platform connected by a footbridge, and it is staffed. In fiscal 2016 it was used by an average of 186 boarding passengers daily, serving the Shirakawa Town Hall area on the upper reaches of the Hida River system.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.