History
Sekijūji-mae Station (F18) is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line station in Minori 1-chōme, Fukui City. It opened on 26 July 1925 as Fukui-shi Station when the Fukubu Electric Railway opened the section from Heiei (now Shinmei) to here. On 15 October 1933 it was moved about 400 m south and renamed Fukui-shin Station, with the tramway being laid further to Fukui-eki-mae (now Fukui-eki Stop) and a rail/tram boundary established near the old station. It became Sekijūji-mae on 25 March 2010 to advertise the nearby Fukui Red Cross Hospital. The station has a 1-island/2-track configuration; staff are posted 7:10–19:30.
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
From December 1951 to May 1977 a 600 m private siding ran from platform 1 to Daiwa Spinning's Fukui factory — a Kato 6.5-ton diesel locomotive operated by Nittsū worked the trains. The siding's curving alignment is still visible in the local street layout as a fan-shaped car park.