History
Echizen-Shimabashi Station opened on 1 June 1919 as Shimabashi Station, a new stop on the Kyoto Electric Light Company's Echizen Electric Railway between Higashi-Fujishima and Kannonmachi; the date of its renaming to its present form is not on record. It was absorbed into Keifuku Electric Railway's Echizen line in March 1942 and destaffed on 1 June 1975. Following the head-on Echizen Main Line collision of 24 June 2001 and the line-wide suspension, the facilities passed to Echizen Railway on 1 February 2003 and the station reopened on 20 July 2003 as part of the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line. A park-and-ride lot with 30 spaces was added in 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Trains pass on a right-hand-running configuration at this island-platform station, which is unusual on the Japanese network where left-hand running predominates.