History
Mitsumatsu Station opened on 15 July 1961 as a new unstaffed passenger-only stop between Wakasa-Takahama and Aono on the JNR Obama Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. A new station building, named "La Porte Mitsumatsu" and equipped with barrier-free ramps, was completed on 10 March 2005 with a formal completion ceremony on 28 March 2005. Despite the rebuild the station has no ticket counter or vending machine and has remained unstaffed since opening (under the management of the Kanazawa branch office).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
The station's name comes from three pine trees (三本の松, sanbon no matsu) that once stood near the site. Mitsumatsu is a single-platform halt on the side of the line facing Tsuruga, served by all scheduled trains; some special trains pass without stopping. The surrounding land is mostly farmland and rice paddies, although the parallel National Route 27 to the north is lined with company offices and small factories.