History
Mizuochi Station opened on 5 October 1927 as a Fukubu Electric Railway stop, originally sited on a rise roughly 200 m south of today's location. On 20 July 1959 a connecting line was completed between the Mizuochi signal box and the station, and Mizuochi was relocated to the present site. When the Fukui Railway's Seiko Line was closed in 1973 the transfer platform fell into disuse; the old station building survived until destroyed by an accidental fire in August 1993, and the site was cleared. In October 2004 a free park-and-ride lot for 80 cars opened on the former station property, and a prefecture-run scheme made the station a model park-and-ride hub.
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
The 80-space free lot beside the platform is funded and run by Fukui Prefecture rather than by the railway, making Mizuochi the prefecture's flagship park-and-ride demonstration station.