History
Daishōji Station opened on 20 September 1897 with the Hokuriku Main Line extension between Fukui and Komatsu, serving central Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture. It became an official Hokuriku Main Line station in 1909, was rebuilt in single-storey reinforced concrete around June 1953, and gained a Midori no Madoguchi ticket window in 1965 (closed 1970, reopened 1990, closed again 2021). Freight handling ended on 15 November 1982, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987. ICOCA IC service began on 15 April 2017. On 16 March 2024, with the Hokuriku Shinkansen reaching Tsuruga, the parallel conventional line was split and Daishōji became the boundary between IR Ishikawa Railway and Hapi-Line Fukui.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Daishōji is now both the westernmost and southernmost station in Ishikawa Prefecture, and is the only Hapi-Line Fukui station located in Ishikawa - though all of that operator's managed stations remain on the Fukui side of the border.