Station

Gohyakurakan

五百羅漢

Gohyakurakan
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Gohyakurakan Station opened on 15 October 1925 as one of the seven original stations on the Daiyūzan Line (then operated by Daiyūzan Railway, later Izuhakone Railway), in present-day Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The station sits 2.3 kilometres from the line's terminus at Odawara, and its single island platform is connected to a four-storey concrete station building whose upper three floors are residential apartments — an unusual arrangement that ties railway infrastructure to local housing. The current structure dates to August 1989, replacing the original facilities. A staffed service window remains in operation, and the station is named for nearby Gyokuhō-ji, the temple famous for its 500 Rakan statues.

Notes

The station building is four storeys of concrete: only the ground floor serves passengers, and the upper three floors are residential apartments — a model of co-located housing-and-station development built in 1989.

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