History
Gifu-Hashima Station opened on 1 October 1964 with the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, in the city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, and remains the only Shinkansen station in the prefecture. Platforms were extended to take 16-car trains on 15 March 1970, and a 0-bay track was added in 1978. Meitetsu opened the adjacent Shin-Hashima Station of the Hashima Line on 11 December 1982, providing rail access from Gifu City. The station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987, automatic ticket gates were installed on 10 March 1998, and a renovation in 2005 reinforced the first floor and reorganised the ticket office. Today every "Hikari" and "Kodama" makes hourly stops in each direction.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A bronze statue of Banboku Ōno and his wife stands in the north plaza — erected by local supporters in December 1964 after the politician died that July without seeing the line open, popularising the now-disputed "political station" legend around the site selection.