History
Gohyakurakan Station opened on 15 October 1925 as one of the seven original stations on the Daiyūzan Line (then operated by Daiyūzan Railway, later Izuhakone Railway), in present-day Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The station sits 2.3 kilometres from the line's terminus at Odawara, and its single island platform is connected to a four-storey concrete station building whose upper three floors are residential apartments — an unusual arrangement that ties railway infrastructure to local housing. The current structure dates to August 1989, replacing the original facilities. A staffed service window remains in operation, and the station is named for nearby Gyokuhō-ji, the temple famous for its 500 Rakan statues.
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
The station building is four storeys of concrete: only the ground floor serves passengers, and the upper three floors are residential apartments — a model of co-located housing-and-station development built in 1989.