Gokurakubashi

Weekday departures: 34/day · Sat & holiday departures: 35/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:41 / 21:47

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Hakone Tozan Cable Car: Koyasan
• Nankai Kōya Line: Kii-Kamiya

Gokurakubashi Station opened on 21 February 1929 as the upper terminus of the Nankai Kōya Line and a junction with the Kōya Cable Line that climbs to Kōyasan. Located in the town of Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture, the station sits 64.5 km from the Nankai Kōya Line's terminus at Shiomibashi and 63.8 km from Namba. Two bay platforms serve four tracks for the main line, while two further side platforms serve the funicular cable line, which terminates 0.8 km away at Kōyasan. The station is staffed and forms the railway gateway to the Mount Kōya temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.

Despite being the rail gateway to Mount Kōya, the station registered only 56 daily boarding passengers in fiscal 2019 — most pilgrim traffic transfers straight onto the connecting Kōya Cable Line.