Gokurakubashi Station

This is where you transfer from Nankai Train Line to Koyasan Cable Car. Take a deep breath and enjoy the nature surrounding you. Something great waits ahead!

This is a little, very enchanting train station within wonderful nature, where you actually change from the local train to the cable care that brings you up to Koyasan and the entire Mt. Koya region. Unfortunately in this case, transfer times in Japan are very short (what is not a bad thing at all) so you won't have much time to appreciate the beauty of this little neat place.

A characteristic station with a type of funicular to Koyasan Station and at least two kinds of train back and forth from the other stations to here.

JR Pass doesn't include use on the Nankai Koya line. If in Osaka you can buy tickets at Nankai sections of the Namba and Shin-Imamiya stations to get to Koyasan (via Gokurakubashi Station).

Breathtaking, beautiful cable car ride from Gokurakubashi station to Koyasan station. Be aware that the Nankai line from Osaka to Gokurakubashi has two flavours: the cheap "Local" line and the pricier "Limited Express" line. The former slower and cheaper by about 40%. The latter has reserved seats that are very fancy but you pay an extra ¥510.

If you travel by train from Osaka to Koyasan, you have to transfer to the Cable Line at Gokurakubashi station. Since 1930 this funicular takes you through the woods to the 330 meters higher Koyasan station (and from there by bus to the village of Koyasan). A nice alternative to the long, winding (de) tour.

Nice little station connecting the Nankai rail line with the funicular railway to Koyasan. Beautiful surroundings. There are toilets and an office where you can leave your luggage. Luggage storage is 500 JPY per piece per day, of you leave overnight they count it as two days.

Efficient link up between station and cable car.