Iburihashi

History

Iburihashi Station opened on 20 September 1897 with the Hokuriku Main Line extension from Fukui to Komatsu, initially read "iburibashi"; the reading was officially changed to "iburihashi" on 15 December 1956. During the 1950s–1960s the station was Ishikawa Prefecture's second-busiest after Kanazawa, serving as a limited-express stop for Kaga Onsen and as the transfer to two Hokuriku Railway branch lines. After the rival Kaga-Onsen Station was consolidated as the onsen gateway around 1970, its status declined. Following JNR privatisation in April 1987 it served JR West, became unstaffed on 1 April 2009, accepted ICOCA from 15 April 2017, and transferred to IR Ishikawa Railway on 16 March 2024 with the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Tsuruga.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The station's name preserves the Kaga-region verb "iburu" — meaning "to sway or jolt" — coined for a wobbling bridge over the Iburihashi-gawa, a word that now survives mainly in the station's kanji rather than in everyday speech.