History
Morita Station opened on 20 September 1897 with the Imperial Railway Agency's extension between Fukui and Komatsu. From 1909 it sat on the Hokuriku Main Line. The station was destroyed by the 1948 Fukui earthquake, with the building and down-platform waiting room collapsing and the nearby Kuzuryū-gawa bridge falling into the river; the present wooden building was reconstructed in April 1949. Freight handling ended in 1973, and the station became unstaffed under a simple commission arrangement on 1 July 2000. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024, the parallel JR West section was transferred to third-sector operator Hapi-Line Fukui, and Morita Station with it.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.