History
Sannō Station opened on 11 February 1914 in what is now the town of Eiheiji, Yoshida District, Fukui Prefecture, when the Kyoto Dentō Echizen Electric Railway built its line between Shin-Fukui and Ichi-Arakawa (today's Echizen-Takehara). It became a Keifuku Electric Railroad Echizen Line station when that company was created in 1942. The station was unstaffed in January 1993 and was closed along with the rest of the network after the head-on collision of 24 June 2001. On 1 February 2003 the line was transferred to Echizen Railway, and Sannō reopened on 19 October 2003 when service resumed between Eiheijiguchi and Katsuyama. A snow shelter was added at the Fukui-end turnout in April 2004.
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
Listed bus routes show the station feeding both the local Eiheiji town circulator and a dedicated shuttle to Fukui University Hospital, an unusual rural-station mix reflecting its position on the way from the university campus to the temple town.