History
Arao Station opened on 1 December 1930 on the Tōkaidō Main Line's Mino-Akasaka branch, between Minami-Arao signal box and Mino-Akasaka, in what is now Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture. From the outset it handled only passengers. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. In October 2011 mirrors and platform markings were installed to support one-person crew operation, and TOICA IC-card service began on 15 March 2025. The ground-level station has a single side platform and is unstaffed under the management of Ōgaki Station; there is no station building, only a platform shelter.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Tickets terminating at this Arao display the prefix "(東) 荒尾" — "east" — to distinguish it from the much larger Arao Station on JR Kyushu's Kagoshima Main Line in Kumamoto Prefecture.