History
Hota Station opened on 21 August 1916 on the Kyoto Dentō Echizen Electric Railway between Kobato and Hossaka, in what is now the city of Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture. It became a Keifuku Electric Railroad Echizen Line station on 2 March 1942 when that company was formed. A passing loop was removed in June 1970 and the station was made unstaffed at the same time. Like the rest of the line, Hota was closed after the head-on collision of 24 June 2001; on 1 February 2003 the line was transferred to Echizen Railway, and the station reopened on 19 October 2003 when service resumed between Eiheijiguchi and Katsuyama. The station consists of a single side platform on the north side of the track with only a small waiting room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station sits between hills and the Kuzuryū River, an area noted as a habitat for the arare-gako (a local name for a freshwater sculpin); houses near the station are sparse.