History
Kongō Station opened on 19 April 1937 on what is now the Nankai Kōya Line, built specifically as a temporary access point for the 1937 "Eighty-Eight Sacred Sites of Shikoku Visiting Display", an off-site Shikoku pilgrimage event held in nearby Kongōen. Initially a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms, it passed through the 1944 Kintetsu merger and 1947 separation to Nankai Electric Railway, was rebuilt as an overhead-station with two island platforms in December 1969, and gained additional passing tracks in the 1970s. It was promoted to a limited-express stop on 10 November 1992, and a west exit terminal opened in March 2003 alongside barrier-free upgrades.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.