History
Ogase Station opened on 20 September 1927 as a stop on the Kakamigahara Railway, an electric line built to link Gifu with Kakamigahara. The operator merged into Meigi Railway on 28 March 1935 and was renamed Meitetsu (Nagoya Railroad) on 1 August that year. The station was destaffed on 16 February 1967. The Tranpas common-fare IC system was introduced on 14 March 2007, replaced by the manaca IC card on 11 February 2011, with Tranpas withdrawn on 29 February 2012. The unattended station now sits 14.6 km from the line terminus at Meitetsu-Gifu.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ogase is regarded as one of Japan's notoriously difficult-to-read station names: the kanji 苧ヶ瀬 give few readers any obvious path to the correct reading "Ogase."