History
Kurikara Station began on 16 December 1908 as a signal box on the state-run Hokuriku Line between Tsubata and Ishidō, and was promoted to a passenger station as Kurikara Station on 15 June 1909. Freight handling ran from 1913 to 1962, and parcel work ended in 1971, after which the station was destaffed for traffic-control duties only. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987. With the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa on 14 March 2015, the parallel local line was reassigned to two third-sector operators, and Kurikara became the boundary station between the IR Ishikawa Railway Line and the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kurikara is the only Ainokaze Toyama Railway station located in Ishikawa Prefecture rather than Toyama, despite being managed by IR Ishikawa Railway.