History
Fukumitsu Station opened on 18 August 1897 as the terminus of the Chuetsu Railway extension from Fukuno and became a through station on 31 October that year when the line was completed to Johana. The Chuetsu Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1920 and the route renamed the Johana Line in August 1942. Between 1939 and the 1980s the station also served as a JNR bus terminal for the Kinpaku, Tamiyama and Inami feeder lines, with the local bus station progressively expanded through the 1950s. Freight was withdrawn on 25 September 1980 and parcels on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation. The current Lodge-style steel-frame station building was completed in April 1983, and a pedestrian-free footbridge with east entrance opened on 6 August 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although Fukumitsu had long been listed in JTB's printed timetable as the principal station of the merged city of Nanto, the listing did not change until the Toyama Shimbun pointed out in 2020 that the city hall had moved here from Fukuno; JTB updated its representative-station designation to Fukumitsu only with the December 2021 issue.