History
Ōzeki Station opened on 30 December 1928 on the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway between Fukuiguchi and the present Awara Yunomachi Station. The line passed to the Keifuku Electric Railroad when Keifuku absorbed the Mikuni Awara company on 1 August 1942. Operations were suspended after the 24 June 2001 head-on collision elsewhere on the Keifuku Echizen Main Line, and the station did not reopen until 10 August 2003, when Keifuku transferred its assets to the newly formed Echizen Railway. The station is in the city of Sakai, Fukui, has one island platform serving two tracks, and is unstaffed.
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
Since 12 March 2017, the station's nameboard has been rendered in sumō moji (the traditional calligraphy used on banzuke rankings), a joint Sakai City–Echizen Railway project tied to the station's name, which shares the kanji for the sumō rank ōzeki.