Kongo

Known weekday departures: 185/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 178/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:44 / 24:35 (00:35 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 9:00–10:00 (15)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Nankai Koya Line: Osakasayamashi ⇄ Takidani

Kongō Station opened on 19 April 1937 on what is now the Nankai Kōya Line, built specifically to serve the 1937 "Eighty-Eight Sacred Sites of Shikoku Visiting Display", an off-site Shikoku pilgrimage event held at Kongōen, a venue newly laid out beside it. Initially a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms, it passed through the 1944 Kintetsu merger and 1947 separation to Nankai Electric Railway, and on 27 December 1969 was rebuilt with an overhead station building while still keeping its two opposed side platforms; a down passing loop entered service in 1974 and an up loop was added later, giving the present two island platforms and four tracks. It was promoted to a limited-express stop on 10 November 1992, and a west exit terminal opened in March 2003 alongside barrier-free upgrades.

The station's name, Kongō, derives from an important term in Shingon Buddhism and esoteric Buddhism; it was named for the circumstances of its establishment together with Kongō-en park for a 1937 degaichō exhibition event modeled on the Shikoku pilgrimage. The town name Kongō itself, as the station's location, is a relatively new place name established in 1968.