History
Minami-Hakui Station opened on 10 February 1960 on the Japanese National Railways Nanao Line between Shikinami and Hakui. The station was a petition stop whose construction was paid for entirely by local residents, and its day-to-day operations were initially contracted to Tetsudō Kōsai-kai. It was destaffed on 15 March 1972. With the JNR privatisation of 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. The single-platform stop is administered by the JR West Nanao Railway Division; ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021, though the station has no IC reader on the platform and fares must be settled on board.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When ICOCA was introduced on the Nanao Line in 2021, Minami-Hakui was the sole stop on the line where IC cards could be tapped but not topped up.