History
Shin-Hikida Station opened on 1 October 1957 as part of a route realignment between Kinomoto and Tsuruga on the Hokuriku Main Line under Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended in 1960 and the station became unstaffed in 1971. Following JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. The line was doubled in stages through the early 1960s, including completion of the Kinukake loop and the Kutsukake section in 1966. A new log-house style station building opened on 11 October 2006, coinciding with DC electrification that extended JR West's Special Rapid services to Tsuruga. Station numbering JR-A02 / JR-B09 was introduced in March 2018, and ICOCA acceptance began that September.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the line was being built, the landowner of 30 peach trees inside the planned station footprint demanded 50,000 yen per tree, and the dispute briefly threatened to delay the 1957 opening.