History
Washizuka-Haribara Station opened on 30 December 1928 on what is now the Mikuni Awara Line, in the city of Fukui. Like other stations on the line it passed to Keifuku Electric Railway through a 1942 merger; operations were halted on 25 June 2001 in the wake of a fatal collision on Keifuku's Echizen Main Line, and the station reopened on 20 July 2003 (with successor operator Echizen Railway assuming ownership on 1 February). On 25 July 2011 the wooden station building was listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. From 27 March 2016 the station has been the through-running terminus for Fukui Railway Fukubu Line services, which required a new low-floor side platform to be built.
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 has been listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 25 July 2011 — one of the rare working rail facilities on the Echizen Railway to carry that designation.