Gōbara Station
railway station in Higashiagatsuma, Agatsuma district, Gunma prefecture, Japan
Gōbara Station (郷原駅, Gōbara-eki) is a passenger railway station in the town of Higashiagatsuma in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The station, which is operated by the East Japan Railway Company, lies on the Agatsuma Line.
Lines
Gōbara Station is a station on the Agatsuma Line, and is located 26.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shibukawa Station.
Station layout
The station consists of two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Gōbara Station was opened on 20 April 1946. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
“Gōbara Station” enters the record as railway station in Higashiagatsuma, Agatsuma district, Gunma prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gōbara, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Gōbara Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gōbara, Station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5627747. Authority coordinates are 36.549, 138.801. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gōbara Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.