History
Shin-Fukui Station opened on 11 February 1914 as the terminus of the Kyoto Dento Echizen Electric Railway between this point and Ichiarakawa (today Echizen-Takehara). The line was extended to Fukui in September 1929 and the section double-tracked that November. The operator joined Keifuku Electric Railway in March 1942 and the station was destaffed in January 1993. After the June 2001 head-on collision shut the line, operations passed to Echizen Railway and resumed on 20 July 2003. The Fukui–Shin-Fukui section was singled in April 2006, raised to a temporary elevated alignment on 27 September 2015 (initially borrowing the Hokuriku Shinkansen viaduct), and rebuilt as a permanent elevated station with two opposed side platforms on 24 June 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From September 2015 until the dedicated viaduct opened in June 2018, Shin-Fukui's trains ran on a borrowed stretch of Hokuriku Shinkansen elevated track — an unusual case of a local third-sector line temporarily using brand-new shinkansen infrastructure.