History
Kii-Gobō Station opened on 15 June 1931 as Gobōmachi Station (御坊町駅) on what is now the Kishū Railway Line, and was renamed to its current name a few days later. The present station building was completed on 21 September 1979, paid for in part by proceeds from a 50th-anniversary commemorative ticket. It is the directly-staffed headquarters station of the Kishū Railway, with the railway department's offices housed in the building. Although the station now has a single side platform, two sidings remain for inspection and storage of rolling stock, and a retired KiHa 603 railcar is preserved on site.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tickets sold at Kii-Gobō include hardboard regular tickets and through-tickets onto the JR Kisei Main, Hanwa, Wakayama and Osaka Loop lines — a range not available at neighbouring Gobō Station, which is under JR West.