History
Nonoichi Station is an unstaffed single-platform stop on the Hokuriku Railroad (Hokutetsu) Ishikawa Line in Honmachi 1-chōme, Nonoichi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, with station number I05. It opened on 1 December 1916 as a transfer station shared by Ishikawa Railway and Matsukin Electric Tramway. The Matsukin tramway was bought by Kanazawa Electric Tramway in March 1920 (becoming the Matsukin Line), and Ishikawa Railway followed in May 1923 (becoming the Ishikawa Line). The station was renamed Nonoichi on 10 February 1926. After successive ownership changes — to Hokuriku Gōdō Electric (now Hokuriku Electric Power) in 1941, to the original Hokuriku Railroad in 1942, and to the present-day Hokuriku Railroad on 13 October 1943 — the Matsukin Line's separate platform was merged into the station, and the Matsukin Line itself was abolished in stages (the Nonoichi–Nomachi section on 18 April 1944 and the Matsutō–Nonoichi section on 14 November 1955). The passing loop was removed on 1 October 1967.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although Hokutetsu's Nonoichi shares its name with the JR/IR Ishikawa Railway station of the same kanji, the two facilities sit about 2 km apart in the city — making Nonoichi one of Japan's listed cases of same-name, same-municipality stations in different locations.