History
Taichō no Sato Station opened on 20 March 2011 as a new stop on the Fukui Railway Fukubu Line. During construction it had carried the provisional name Maki Station. The station consists of a single ground-level side platform 40 metres long and 2 metres wide and is unattended; the adjacent Seimei Station, which opened on the same day, shares the same simplified layout. Located 12.2 km from the line's terminus at Takefu-shin in Fukui City, it is identified as F11 and bears the name "Taichō no Sato" ("Taichō's Hometown") after the eighth-century monk Taichō, who tradition holds was born nearby at the temple Taichō-ji.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is named after the eighth-century mountain ascetic Taichō, whom local tradition holds was born nearby at Taichō-ji temple — making this one of very few Japanese stations named after a Nara-period Buddhist monk.