History
Gumyōji Station (KK 43) is on the Keikyū Main Line in Gumyō-ji-chō, Minami-ku, Yokohama. It opened on 1 April 1930 as a Shōnan Electric Railway station when the Kogane-chō – Uraga / Shōnan-Zushi (today Zushi-Hayama) line was completed. The station was built on land carved from Gumyō-ji Temple's back hill, with the railway agreeing to a temple-style station building as a condition of the land grant. After Shōnan Electric was absorbed by Keihin Electric Railway on 1 November 1941 and then by the wartime 'Great Tōkyū' on 1 May 1942, Keikyū re-emerged as the operator on 1 June 1948. The platforms were extended to 6-car length in October 1969, the temple-style original was replaced by a bridge-style building in December 1984, and 8-car-capable platforms with weekday-evening rapid service stops opened on 13 December 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Keikyū station's original 1930 building had a striking vermilion-painted tiled roof in deliberate imitation of the temple style — to honour the lease condition imposed by Gumyō-ji Temple when the rail company bought the back-hill land. The temple-style building survived for 54 years before being replaced by the current bridge-station building in December 1984.