History
Fukui-jōshi Daimyōmachi Station (F21) is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line tram stop in Ōte, Fukui City, where the Fukui-eki branch line diverges. It opened on 15 October 1933 as Daimyōmachi Station when the Fukubu Electric Railway extended its line from Fukui-shin (today Sekijūji-mae) to Fukui-eki-mae (today Fukui-eki). It was renamed Honmachi-dōri on 27 November 1950 (when Shiyakusho-mae opened and took over the Fukui-eki connection), abolished in 2002, replaced on 11 December 2017 with a new platform and finally renamed Fukui-jōshi Daimyōmachi on 24 March 2018, to evoke Fukui Castle ruins as a tourist gateway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
On 8 November 2019 the stop hosted a demonstration of 'JURACA', an IC-based fare card issued by Fukui Bank and Fukui Shinbun, as part of a regional electronic-money experiment that ran until 20 November 2019.