History
Sekigahara Station (CA 79) is on JR Central's Tōkaidō Main Line in Sekigahara-chō, Fuwa District, Gifu — the westernmost station in Gifu Prefecture. It opened on 1 May 1883 as a state-railway station when the Nagahama – Sekigahara section was completed. The line was reorganised over the next decades, with a gradient-easing new line via Kashiwabara opened on 15 October 1899 and the old route via Fukaya / Nagaoka closed on 28 December 1899. A separate, freight-only gradient-easing 'New Tarui Line' via the (now-closed) Shin-Tarui Station opened on 11 October 1944. JR Central took over on 1 April 1987, and the station was unstaffed from 1 February 2024 when the 'Sapot tsuki Shitei-seki Kenbaiki' began service under remote management from Ōgaki. Two island platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station is famous as the gateway to the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara battlefield — a complex of museums, monuments and historical markers radiates from the south exit. In recent years a single annual 'Sawayaka Walking' event (first held 6 October 1991, 'Sekigahara Ancient-Battlefield Tour') still uses the station as its starting point.