History
Tsuruga Station opened on 10 March 1882 when the government railway reached the Sea of Japan coast at what is now Tsuruga, Fukui. The through route was completed via the Yanagase Tunnel on 16 April 1884, and a Hokuriku Line branch toward Fukui opened on 15 July 1896. The current site dates from a relocation on 1 June 1909, and the wartime second-generation building was lost in a 1945 air raid before the fourth-generation depot opened in March 1951. The line was electrified at 60 Hz AC on 10 June 1962. On 16 March 2024 the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa terminated here, and adjacent JR West sections south of Daishōji transferred to the new Hapi-Line Fukui operator.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Shinkansen platforms sit 21 metres above ground level — the tallest in the network — because the elevated structure had to clear a National Route 8 viaduct on the north side of the station.