History
Meitetsu Gifu Station traces back to two separate predecessors. The first Shin-Gifu Station opened on 26 December 1914 as part of the Mino Electric Tramway's Kasamatsu Line (now the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line). The Kakamigahara Railway's Naga-Sumicho Station (長住町駅) opened nearby on 28 December 1928. On 18 April 1948 the original Shin-Gifu Station was relocated and merged into Naga-Sumicho, which was renamed Shin-Gifu (second generation). Subsequent rebuilds came in 1957 and 1970, a new East Entrance was added on 27 May 1988, and a major reconstruction of the station complex finished on 2 July 1988. After an October 2003 incident in which an arriving express train overshot the buffers ("Shin-Gifu Station collision"), the station was renamed Meitetsu Gifu on 29 January 2005. The current main station building has been in use since 14 July 2007; manaca IC-card service began 11 February 2011. From 12 April 2025 the East gate has been fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station is in fact two adjacent terminals that don't physically connect: the elevated Nagoya Main Line platforms and the ground-level Kakamigahara Line platforms have separate concourses linked only by a paid-area pedestrian passage, and the two lines' tracks do not join at the station, so no through-services between the Nagoya Main Line and the Kakamigahara Line are possible. The 1- and 2-platform support columns and parts of the roofing reuse vintage rail sourced from Carnegie steel in 1897, and from 18 to 25 August 2022 the nameplate was temporarily changed to "Meitetsu FC Gifu Station" in a collaboration with local J-League club FC Gifu.