History
JR Goidō Station began operation on 8 February 1940 as Goidō Signal Box, providing a crossing loop on the single-track Wakayama Line between Kashiba and Takada. The signal box was discontinued in July 1949 and reopened in December 1955. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. Following a long campaign by local residents and Kashiba City, which contributed roughly two hundred million yen toward construction costs, the signal box was upgraded to a passenger station and opened under its present name on 13 March 2004; the JR prefix distinguishes it from Kintetsu's nearby Goidō Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.