History
Eiheijiguchi Station opened on 11 February 1914 as Eiheiji Station on the Kyoto Electric Light Company's Echizen Electric Railway. The connecting Eiheiji Railway built a branch to Eiheijimon-Mae (1925) and a separate line from Kanazu (1929), making the station a junction. It was renamed Eiheijiguchi on 1 January 1927, and renamed Higashi-Furuichi when the Eiheiji Railway merged into Keifuku Electric Railway in December 1944. The Kanazu branch closed in 1969. Two serious collisions in 2000 and 2001 led to a full line suspension; services resumed under Echizen Railway on 20 July 2003 and the present name was restored. A new station building opened on 11 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original 1914 wooden station building, preserved as a registered cultural property, was used as a filming location for the 1972 Tora-san film Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shibamata Bojō.