History
Honjō Station opened on 30 December 1928 with the inauguration of the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway's Fukuiguchi to Awara section, in what is now Awara, Fukui Prefecture. Through the 1942 merger of Mikuni Awara Electric Railway with Keifuku Electric Railway it became a Keifuku Mikuni Awara Line stop. Freight ended in 1967, staffing was contracted out in 1973 and withdrawn entirely in 1978. Operations ceased on 24 June 2001 following the Keifuku Echizen Main Line collision, and the station reopened on 10 August 2003 as an Echizen Railway facility. The original wooden building, with platform-roof supports made from reused rail, was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property on 25 July 2011.
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 wooden station building dates from the line's 1928 opening and is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property; the platform-canopy supports reuse retired sections of rail.