History
Meiho Station opened on 1 October 1988 on the JR West Hokuriku Main Line in the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, built in response to requests from local residents and inserted between Terai (now Nomi-Negami) and Komatsu. ICOCA IC card service began on 15 April 2017. With the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Kanazawa to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024, the station was transferred from JR West to the third-sector IR Ishikawa Railway. The two opposed side platforms sit on an embankment with simple waiting shelters and a pedestrian underpass linking them, and the station is unstaffed under Komatsu Station management.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The approach melody differs by platform: trains heading toward Komatsu and Fukui depart to Beethoven's "Fur Elise", while Kanazawa-bound trains depart to "Annie Laurie".