Gokurakubashi

Weekday departures: 34/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 35/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:41 / 21:47

Busiest hour in the available data: 10:00–11:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Nankai Koya Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Hakone Tozan Cable Car: no weekday timetable
• Hakone Tozan Cable Car: one direction only

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

Gokurakubashi Station opened on 21 February 1929 and is today the terminus of the Nankai Kōya Line as well as a junction with the funicular Nankai 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 an average of only 56 boarding passengers a day in fiscal 2019 — a boardings-only count at a junction where the funicular Nankai Cable Line carries visitors on up to Kōyasan.