Engyōjiguchi

History

Engyōjiguchi Station opened on 1 October 1964 as a new stop along the existing Dosan Line of Japanese National Railways, in the city of Kōchi. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Shikoku and was assigned station number K02. On 26 February 2008 the platform was rebuilt as part of a 4.1 km elevation project that lifted Kōchi Station and its neighbouring tracks above the streets, improving downtown traffic circulation. The station is an unstaffed single-track side-platform halt with an elevator from street level, automated ticket vending, bike parking under the elevated structure, and a toilet later added near the eastern stairway.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

After the 2008 elevation, residents complained that the open northern side of the platform let passers-by peer down into windows and balconies, so JR Shikoku cut the platform seating from ten places to three — sending more passengers to crowd the sheltered ticket-machine area until benches were finally restored around 2021.