Oya (Gifu)

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Ōya Station opened on 9 October 1927 as Mino-Shimokawa Station — the temporary northern terminus of the Ministry of Railways' Etsumi-Nan Line as it advanced from Mino-Suhara (now Hanno). The line was extended a further stage from Ōya to Fukado on 6 May 1928. Wagon-load freight handling ended on 29 November 1962. The station's ticket and gate operations were discontinued on 1 April 1974, all freight services on 1 October 1974, and luggage handling and on-site staffing on 1 December 1974. With the third-sector transfer of the JNR Etsumi-Nan Line to the Nagaragawa Railway on 11 December 1986, the station was renamed Ōya. Following the July 2018 heavy-rain damage to the signalling between Mino-shi and Ōya, the section reopened under pilotman-and-telephone block working (shidō tsūshin-shiki) and staff were posted at the station again.

Ōya is the only passing place between Mino-shi and Gujō-Hachiman, and trains have long crossed here. The station has a wooden building on the down side, alongside a small railway museum displaying former railway equipment that opens whenever the Nagara sightseeing train runs. Although the Nagara does not exchange passengers here, it stops for around ten minutes to allow a toilet break.