History
The station opened on 30 December 1928 as Shimohyōgo Station on the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway between Fukuiguchi and the present Awara Yunomachi. It became a Keifuku Electric Railroad station on 1 August 1942 when Keifuku absorbed the Mikuni Awara company. Operations were suspended after the 24 June 2001 collision on Keifuku's Echizen Main Line, and Keifuku transferred its rail assets to the new Echizen Railway on 1 February 2003; passenger service resumed on 10 August 2003. On 25 March 2017 the station was renamed to Shimohyōgo Kōfuku Station, in the city of Sakai, Fukui. It has a single side platform 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
The 2017 rename to "Kōfuku" puns on two things at once: the area was historically a Kōfuku-ji temple estate, and Fukui Prefecture had ranked first in Japan for happiness ("kōfuku"). The Kōfuku-ji chief abbot was invited to the ceremony and his calligraphy of the character for "heart" was hung on the station building.