History
Higashi-Fujishima Station opened on 11 February 1914 as Fujishima Station with the Kyoto Electric Light Company's Echizen Electric Railway between Shin-Fukui and Ichi-Arakawa (today's Echizen-Takehara), and was renamed to its current form in 1929. It became part of Keifuku Electric Railway's Echizen line in March 1942. Freight ended in April 1967, and station duties were progressively contracted out and then discontinued, leaving the station unstaffed from February 1983. After the June 2001 Echizen Main Line collision shut down the network, the facilities transferred to Echizen Railway on 1 February 2003 and the station reopened on 20 July 2003 as part of the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.