Doai Station
It is jokingly known as "Japan's Number One Mole Station" (日本一のモグラ駅, Nippon ichi no mogura eki)[1] because passengers must make a 10 minute descent down 486 steps into a tunnel in order to reach the northbound platform.
Climb the stairs and go through the connecting passageway 143 meters (24 steps) to reach the ticket gate.
[5][6] Access from the ticket gate is through a 143 metres (469 feet) covered connecting passageway (with 2 small flights of stairs with 12 steps each) which crosses both National Route 291 and the Yuhiso River, then entering a tunnel and descending another 462 steps to the platform.
The underground platform, which takes 10 minutes to descend to from the ticket gate, has a small waiting room.
Online sources state it is haunted, and as such has become a local ghost hunting spot.
English translation: "Welcome to 'Japan's No. 1 Mole Station'"
The staircase is 338 meters long and has 462 steps. Climb the stairs and go through the connecting passageway 143 meters (24 steps) to reach the ticket gate. The elevation of the down platform is 583 meters above sea level, while the station building is 653.7 meters, meaning the difference in elevation between the station building and the down platform is 70.7 meters. It takes about 10 minutes to reach the ticket gate. Please be mindful of your step when entering.