History
Hishima Station opened on 1 May 1931 on the Kyoto Dento Echizen Electric Railway in what is today Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, and joined the new Keifuku Electric Railway in March 1942. It was destaffed on 7 June 1956 and never restaffed. After the June 2001 head-on collision shut the Echizen Main Line, the assets passed to the third-sector Echizen Railway on 1 February 2003, and service resumed on 19 October as part of the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line. The single-side-platform stop sits 26.4 km from Fukui; ridership is so low that roughly half of daytime trains skip it, leaving an effective stopping pattern of about one train per hour. In fiscal 2016 it recorded no boardings in the published statistics.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.