History
Ichijōdani Station opened on 15 December 1960 with the Japanese National Railways Etsumi-Hoku Line's extension between Echizen-Hanandō and Katsuhara, in what is today the city of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture. The station has been unstaffed since opening. It passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The line was closed after a July 2004 flood, and an interim turn-back signal was installed when service was partially restored on 11 September 2004 making this station the temporary western terminus; the signal was removed when through service resumed on 30 June 2007. The station building was redecorated in samurai-residence style in October 2022 to mark the opening of the new Fukui Prefectural Asakura Site Museum.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station fences are decorated with the Asakura family crest, the mitsumori-mokkō, applied during a 2022 station refurbishment marking the opening of the new Asakura Site Museum nearby.