History
Unumajuku Station opened on 20 September 1927 as a station of the Kakamigahara Railway in what is now Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, and is today operated by Meitetsu (Nagoya Railroad) on its Kakamigahara Line. Kakamigahara lies in the northern Nōbi Plain in southern Gifu Prefecture, with the Kiso River forming the prefectural border to the south. The city flourished historically as a Nakasendō post town — Unuma-juku, the namesake of this station — and in the modern era developed as an industrial city tied to the JASDF Gifu Air Base; today it serves as a commuter suburb of Gifu and Nagoya, and ranks as Gifu Prefecture's third-largest city by population after Gifu and Ōgaki.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The station name preserves the memory of Unuma-juku, the historic Nakasendō post town that is the namesake of this station; per the station's own article the post-town site itself is about a 15-minute walk from the platform.