History
Fukuiguchi Station opened on 11 February 1914 as Shihiguchi Station on the Kyoto Dento Echizen Electric Railway, and was renamed Fukuiguchi on 1 September of that year. A second line, the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway, opened from Fukuiguchi to today's Awara-Yunomachi on 30 December 1928, making this the junction point that the two lines still share. Both routes were folded into Keifuku Electric Railway in 1942. After the June 2001 head-on collision shut the system, Echizen Railway took over operations on 1 February 2003 and the station reopened on 20 July of that year. The stop moved to temporary facilities on 27 September 2015 during a Fukui-area elevation project and reopened as a fully elevated three-track island-platform station on 24 June 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Fukuiguchi served as the operational "mouth" of the line from the start — its first name, Shihiguchi ("Shihi entrance"), was changed within seven months to today's Fukuiguchi, and the station has hosted the line's depot and headquarters operations ever since.