Goukaku

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Gōkaku Station opened on 10 June 1927 as Goka Station, one of the original stops on the Ōigawa Railway's main line between Kanaya and Yokooka. It served Goka Village (later absorbed into Kanaya Town, then into Shimada in 2005). A local revitalisation group formed in the summer of 2014 hung an unofficial "Gōkaku" (lit. "pass an exam") signboard at the station at examination time in 2015 to encourage exam candidates. Building on that campaign, the Ōigawa Railway formally renamed the stop Gōkaku Station on 12 November 2020, on the same day the adjacent new Kadode Station opened — yielding a marketable run of three lucky-name stops (Higiri, Gōkaku, Kadode).

The station's rename in 2020, on the same day the adjacent new Kadode Station opened, produced a run of three consecutive stops — Higiri (named for the nearby Higiri Jizō), Gōkaku ("pass") and Kadode ("setting out") — which the Ōigawa Railway promotes as making it an auspicious railway.