Gunchu

History

Gunchū Station opened on 4 July 1896 as the terminus of the South Iyo Railway. It became an Iyo Railway station on 1 May 1900 when South Iyo merged into Iyotetsu, and ceased to be a terminus on 10 May 1939 when the extension to Gunchū-kō (Gunchū Port) opened. The station consists of a single side platform serving one track and remains staffed.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.

Notes

The site immediately around Gunchū Station was historically the seat of district and town government, but those offices have since relocated and their land has been repurposed as parking; the western shopping streets that once oriented around the offices still survive in front of the station.