History
Gose Station opened on 10 May 1896 as part of the Nanwa Railway between Takada and Kuzu (today's Yoshinoguchi). The Nanwa Railway was absorbed by the Kansai Railway in 1904 and nationalised under the 1907 Railway Nationalisation Act, joining the newly designated Wakayama Line in 1909. It passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation and became a simply-commissioned station in 2002, staffed by Gose City's silver workforce centre. A west IC-only gate opened on 27 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original 1896 Meiji-era wooden station building still stands and is regarded as one of the elements defining the cultural landscape of the surrounding Gose-machi.