History
Enshū-Gansuiji Station opened on 6 December 1909 as Gansuiji Station, named for the nearby Gansu-ji temple (a branch of Kōyasan whose main precinct was then about one kilometre to the south of its current location). It was renamed Enshū-Gansuiji on 1 April 1923, became unattended from September 1974, and on 17 October 2012 platform-improvement works including ramps, platform-height adjustment, and a new east-side entrance were completed. The log-house-style station building was designated under the fourth round of the Chubu Transport Bureau's "100 Selected Stations of Chubu" programme in 2002 in recognition of the station's role as the nearest stop to Shizuoka Prefectural Natural Park.
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
Although the station name includes the prefix "Enshū" (an old name for Tōtōmi Province), train PA announcements drop the prefix and call the stop simply "Gansuiji Station". The nearby Tenryū-Hamanako Line has a separate station also named Gansuiji that is geographically closer to Gansu-ji temple but is not a transfer station with this one.