History
Bell-mae Station (F16) is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line station in Hanandō-Minami 1-chōme, Fukui City. It opened on 1 October 1989 as Hanandō-Minami Station and was renamed Bell-mae on 15 April 1993 after the adjacent 'Shopping City Bell' shopping centre. On 25 March 2010 it was promoted to an express stop. The station has a single side platform with a prefab shelter and a ticket window staffed during 10:00–15:00.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Bell-mae is one of Japan's small but growing class of stations that exist primarily to serve a shopping centre — the station was built to make Bell more accessible. Bell provides 50 park-and-ride spaces that are reserved for Fukui Railway commuter-pass or coupon-ticket holders who also buy 3,000 yen of Bell shopping coupons.