History
Hossaka Station opened on 11 March 1914 with the inauguration of the Kyoto Dento Echizen Electric Railway between Ichiarakawa (today Echizen-Takehara) and Katsuyama. It passed to Keifuku Electric Railway on 2 March 1942, became a contracted-staff station on 3 March 1984, and was fully destaffed on 11 January 1993. The 2001 head-on collision that shut the Echizen Main Line actually occurred between Hossaka and the adjacent Hota Station; the run-through accident triggered the line-wide closure, and service resumed under Echizen Railway on 19 October 2003. A snow shelter was added at the Katsuyama-side switch the following April. The stop sits 24.5 km from Fukui with two opposed side platforms; in fiscal 2016 it averaged 52 boardings daily.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.