History
Funato Station opened on 4 December 1910 as part of Tosa Electric Railway's (土佐電気鉄道) extension of the future Gomen Line east of Kako, on the same day as the now-vanished Ōtsu terminus 400 m further on. The stop was renamed Tosaden Kōtsū's after the 1 October 2014 operator merger that combined Tosa Electric Railway with Kōchi-ken Kōtsū and Tosaden Dream Service. Two side platforms straddle the tracks: the Harimaya-bashi-bound platform borrows a shop frontage alongside the tracks as its safety island, while the Gomenmachi-bound platform is marked only by a white line painted on the road shoulder to the west.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Funato is identified in the 10th-century Tosa Diary (土佐日記) of Ki no Tsurayuki as the place where the diarist boarded his boat for the journey back to the capital — a sign at the foot of the steps up to the Route 195 Funato Bridge marks the location.