Station

Gosen

五泉

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Gosen
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Gosen Station opened on 25 October 1910 with the Railway Agency's Shin'etsu Line branch from Niitsu to Maoroshi, becoming part of the Iwakoshi Line in November 1914 and the Ban'etsu West Line in October 1917. The private Kanbara Railway ran its own Kanbara Railway Line from this station, opening as far as Muramatsu on 20 October 1923 and closing on 4 October 1999. Wagon-load freight ended in March 1982, a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened that December, and parcels were withdrawn in March 1986. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight on 1 April 1987; JR Freight's facility closed in April 2006. It became a business-contract station from 1 April 2018, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 30 September 2023, replaced the next day by a reserved-seat ticket machine.

Notes

Gosen was the interchange with the private Kanbara Railway between 1923 and 1999; after the line closed, the city acquired about 9,740 square metres of the former platform and trackbed site in 2010 for around 177 million yen, and welfare facilities and municipal roads were subsequently built there.

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