History
Fukuoka Station opened on 1 November 1898 with the Hokuriku Line extension between Kanazawa and Takaoka, in what was then Shimomino village in the Fukuoka district of Nishi-Tonami County (now part of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture). It was reclassified to the Hokuriku Main Line in October 1909. A new triangular-roofed station building incorporating a tourist information office, a local-products hall and a library branch was completed on 13 April 2000 at a cost of about 450 million yen. With the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Kanazawa on 14 March 2015 the station transferred from JR West to the Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and ICOCA service began the same month. Two platform elevators entered service on 20 March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite its name, Fukuoka Station has no relation to Fukuoka City in Kyushu — it is named after the former Fukuoka Town in Nishi-Tonami County, Toyama. After the 2015 transfer to Ainokaze Toyama Railway no station in the JR Group is simply named 'Fukuoka' any longer.