History
Fukui Station is the representative station of Fukui City and Fukui Prefecture, served by JR West, Hapi-Line Fukui, Echizen Tetsudō and (at the adjoining Fukui-eki Stop) Fukui Railway's Fukubu Line. JR West and Hapi-Line Fukui share the elevated tracks; the JR West Hokuriku Shinkansen, the Hapi-Line Fukui Line (formerly JR West's Hokuriku Main Line), and Echizen Tetsudō's Katsuyama-Eiheiji and Mikuni-Awara Lines all use it, and JR West's Etsumi-hoku Line (Kuzuryū Line) and Mikuni-Awara branches also terminate here. The station opened on 15 July 1896 as a terminus on the official Hokuriku Line, became a through-station in 1897 on extension to Komatsu, was destroyed by air raid in 1945 and earthquake in 1948, and was transferred to JR West at the 1987 privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Fukui Station's predecessor buildings were destroyed three times in seven years: by US Navy fire-bombing on 19 July 1945, by the magnitude-7.1 Fukui earthquake on 28 June 1948, and by an interior fire late on 2 July 1951 that gutted every part of the building except the stationmaster's office.