History
Fuchū-Usaka Station opened on 15 March 2008 on the Takayama Main Line in Toyama, originally as a temporary stop authorised through fiscal 2011 under the city's JR Takayama Line revitalisation experiment, with Toyama paying the full cost of the platform and signalling. Use exceeded the 140-rider threshold needed for permanent status, and JR West applied for full station designation in November 2013; approval was granted on 13 November 2013, and the station was promoted to permanent status on 15 March 2014. Its name combines the former district name Fuchū with the old village name Usaka.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Toyama paid the full cost of building the station as part of a three-year experiment to revive Takayama Line ridership.