History
Gomenmachi is a paired tram and railway station in Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture. The tram stop opened on 21 February 1925 as Gomenmachi-ekimae, fronting the Kōchi Railway's then year-old station of the same name. After the Tosa Electric Railway absorbed Kōchi Railway in 1941 and the post-war Tosa Electric Railway reorganisations, the original Geibi Line station was closed on 1 April 1974 when the line was abandoned to make way for the planned Asa-nishi Line. The tram stop was renamed Gomenmachi on 26 July 1974 and moved to its present location. The current Tosa Kuroshio Railway station opened on 1 July 2002 as an intermediate stop on the new Asa Line, with station number GN39.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Tosa Kuroshio Railway station carries the secondary nickname "Arigatō Station," proposed by Anpanman creator Takashi Yanase, who spent his childhood in Gomen and felt that pairing the homophone Gomen ("sorry") with Arigatō ("thank you") would soften the line's reputation.