History
Ōgaki Station, in Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, sits 410.0 km from Tokyo on the Tōkaidō Main Line and is shared by JR Central, Tarumi Railway, and Yōrō Railway. The JR/Tarumi facility opened on 25 May 1884 when the government railway was extended from Sekigahara, and the principal station building was destroyed in the 1891 Nōbi earthquake. The Yōrō Railway side opened separately on 31 July 1913. A bridge-style JR building came into use on 7 December 1985, the station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987, TOICA service began on 25 November 2006, and the new "Suito Bridge" north–south concourse opened on 19 September 2009. The Yōrō Line was transferred from Kintetsu to Yōrō Railway on 1 October 2007. JR Central assigned the station number CA77 in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the overnight Moonlight Nagara was retired in 2020, passengers transferring to the 5:53 Maibara-bound local sprinted from one platform to the next in a three-minute connection nicknamed the "Ōgaki Dash"; JR Central eventually replaced its "under 10 km/h inside the concourse" sign with one simply asking passengers not to run.