Station

Kongō

金剛

Kongō
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Train service

Weekday departures: 186/day · Sat & holiday departures: 179/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:35 / 24:22

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (15)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kongō Station opened on 19 April 1937 on what is now the Nankai Kōya Line, built specifically as a temporary access point for the 1937 "Eighty-Eight Sacred Sites of Shikoku Visiting Display", an off-site Shikoku pilgrimage event held in nearby Kongōen. Initially a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms, it passed through the 1944 Kintetsu merger and 1947 separation to Nankai Electric Railway, was rebuilt as an overhead-station with two island platforms in December 1969, and gained additional passing tracks in the 1970s. 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.

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