Oshio (Fukui)

History

Ōshio Station opened on 20 December 1927 in what is now the city of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, as a regular stop on the Japanese Government Railways' Hokuriku Main Line. Freight and parcel handling ended on 25 March 1971, when the stop was simultaneously destaffed. The station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and was finally rendered unstaffed of even contracted personnel on 1 April 2014. ICOCA IC-card service began on 15 September 2018. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024 the parallel conventional line was transferred from JR West to the third-sector Hapi-Line Fukui, and Ōshio passed to that operator on the same date.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The name comes from the village of Ōshio that existed at opening; the wooden station building has stood on the up-line side throughout the post-war period.