History
Mikuni Station opened on 15 December 1911 as a general station on the government-built Mikuni Line in what is now Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture. The line was extended to a port siding on 1 January 1913 and the siding became a separate freight station (Mikuni-Minato) on 1 July 1914. Year-round passenger service resumed between the two on 15 December 1927. The competing Mikuni-Awara Electric Railway opened the original Densha-Mikuni Station alongside in January 1929, and the two operations were consolidated when the Mikuni Line was suspended for the war effort on 11 October 1944 and Keifuku Electric Railway took over the section between Mikuni and Mikuni-Minato under 600 V DC electrification. JNR's Mikuni Line was formally abolished on 1 March 1972. The original station building was replaced when Keifuku Mikuni Building opened on 1 July 1982. The station was closed on 24 June 2001 after the Echizen Honsen accident and reopened on 10 August 2003 as an Echizen Railway station. A new wooden station building (approximately 484 m²) entered service on 27 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The new 2018 station building is a single-storey timber structure (with partial reinforced-concrete sections) of about 484 m² housing the station office, a waiting room, a tourist information centre, a regional-information broadcasting room and tenant retail space — a deliberate landmark for the Mikuni district's urban-renewal plan.