History
Minami-Imajō Station opened on 10 June 1962 in the town of Minamiechizen, Fukui Prefecture, the day the JNR Hokuriku Main Line was rerouted through the new Hokuriku Tunnel between Tsuruga and Imajō. Built as an unstaffed station on the new alignment, it stands immediately at the tunnel's northern portal and was conceived as the substitute stop for the abandoned Ōgiri Station on the abandoned Sugizu loop. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation and gained ICOCA service on 15 September 2018. On 16 March 2024 the line was transferred to Hapi-Line Fukui when the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa to Tsuruga opened.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Locals first asked for the station to be named after the old place-name "Kaeru" — pronounced kaheru — but "Minami-Imajō" was chosen instead, and the following year the official district name was itself changed from Kaeru to Minami-Imajō to match.