History
Echizen-Takehara Station opened on 11 February 1914 as Ichiarakawa Station on the Kyoto Dento Echizen Electric Railway, and joined the new Keifuku Electric Railway on 2 March 1942. The stop was relocated about 300 m west and renamed Echizen-Takehara on 1 September 1955, lost its freight handling in April 1967, and was destaffed on 1 February 1983. After the June 2001 head-on collision shut the Echizen Main Line, operations resumed under Echizen Railway on 19 October 2003 and a snow shelter was installed at the Fukui-side switch in April 2004. The single island platform 19.3 km from Fukui is the regular passing point for most daytime services on the otherwise single-track line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.