History
Gokurakuji Station opened on 1 April 1904 on the Enoshima Electric Railway. On 14 October 1999 it was named one of the 'Top 100 Stations in the Kantō Region' for its 'old-world atmosphere of greenery and quiet that gives a sense of seasonal charm and calm'. In 2014 the Enoshima Electric Railway as a whole was selected as a Japan Society of Civil Engineers Heritage Civil Engineering site, with the station one of four locations carrying a commemorative plaque. The new station building entered service on 29 January 2019 and the renewal was completed in April that year. The station became unstaffed on 16 September 2022. Station numbering EN11 was assigned in January 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Gokurakuji has a single side platform with one track and is now unstaffed (station number EN11). There are two station buildings: the very old wooden original was selected as one of the 'Top 100 Stations in the Kantō Region' in October 1999 and is now preserved as a monument, though it retains a simple PASMO/Suica faregate plus tap-to-pay and QR-code readers so it still functions as a ticket gate. The 2019 new building is also wood-framed and houses the ticket machine, ticket window, segregated and accessible toilets; the station plaza's stone paving was reused from Kugenuma Station and originally came from the marble used on the historic Enoshima - Koshigoe street-running section. The adjacent Gokurakuji depot makes the platform unusually long (about 85 m, six-car-plus) because trains are routinely coupled, uncoupled and exchanged here.