History
Nanjō Station opened on 15 July 1896 as Sabanami Station (鯖波駅) on what is today the Hapi-Line Fukui Line in the town of Minamiechizen, Fukui Prefecture, 26.3 km from Tsuruga. It was renamed Nanjō Station on 1 April 1973, passed to JR West with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and was transferred on 16 March 2024 to the third-sector Hapi-Line Fukui when the western extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen reached Tsuruga and the parallel conventional line was hived off. The station has two opposed unnumbered side platforms connected by an underground passage and remains staffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.