History
Fukui Station, the prefectural capital's principal station, was opened on 15 July 1896 by the state railway as the terminus of the Hokuriku Line from Tsuruga and was extended westward the following year. War damage in 1945 and the 1948 Fukui earthquake destroyed the building twice in three years. After the 1987 JNR breakup the station passed to JR West, and a new building and the "Prism Fukui" shopping mall opened on 18 April 2005. The Hokuriku Shinkansen viaduct above the conventional platforms was structurally completed in February 2009. On 16 March 2024 the shinkansen was extended from Kanazawa to Tsuruga and the parallel conventional line was transferred to Hapi-Line Fukui; the renewed station mall "Kurufu Fukui Station" opened the same day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
A 312-metre island-platform Shinkansen station with just two tracks is unusually compact; the present design replaced an earlier plan for a four-track facility shared with Echizen Railway after that operator's 2001 collision-accident crisis upset the original scheme.