History
Awazu Station opened on 16 November 1907 between Ugurubashi and Komatsu on the government-built Hokuriku Line; it joined the Hokuriku Main Line in 1909. From 1911 a separate Fuzu Station of the Awazu Tramway connected here, becoming Shin-Awazu after 1913 under Onsen Electric Railway and later Hokuriku Railway operation, until that line closed on 23 November 1962. The limited-express "Kaetsu" stopped serving from 14 March 1985, and JR West took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. ICOCA was accepted from 15 April 2017. Unstaffed operation began on 12 March 2022, and on 16 March 2024 the station transferred to IR Ishikawa Railway with the Hokuriku Shinkansen Tsuruga extension.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building dating to the 1907 opening still stands on the east side of the tracks, with the platforms reached through an underground passage.