Kureha

History

Kureha Station opened on 1908-11-03 as a general station of the state-built Hokuriku Line, inserted between Kosugi and Toyama at Otake in Nishi-Kureha village in Nei-gun. On 1908-11-16 the neighbouring Toyama Station was relocated to its present site, altering the alignment between Kureha and Toyama. The route-name decree of 1909-10-12 placed it on the Hokuriku Main Line, and the line on either side was double-tracked — to Kosugi on 1958-09-29 and to Toyama on 1960-05-31. Freight handling ended on 1984-02-01. The station passed to JR West at the 1987-04-01 privatisation, and on 2015-03-14, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa, it was transferred to the Ainokaze Toyama Railway. A new north entrance entered service on 2024-03-22.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The land for the station was supplied by the village of Nishi-Kureha, which lobbied for the stop and gave up a hillside north of Anekura-hime Shrine to make level ground for the platforms.