History
Katsuyama Station opened on 11 March 1914 as the terminus of what is today the Echizen Railway Katsuyama Eiheiji Line. The line passed to Keifuku Electric Railway on 2 March 1942 and lost its onward connection to Keifuku-Ōno on 13 August 1974, which made Katsuyama the line's permanent terminus. The June 2001 Echizen Main Line head-on collision triggered a system-wide closure; operations resumed under the new third-sector Echizen Railway on 19 October 2003. The 1914 station building survived all of these transitions and was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on 17 February 2004. The stop sits 27.8 km from Fukui with one side and one island platform connected by a level crossing, and remains staffed. In fiscal 2015 daily boardings averaged 395.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Katsuyama's original 1914 station building is still in service — and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2004, an unusual honour for a third-sector terminal.