History
Azuchi Station opened on 25 April 1914 as a Japanese Government Railway stop handling both passengers and freight. Freight service ended on 15 March 1972, and the station joined JR West at the 1987 privatisation. ICOCA was enabled on 1 November 2003, and the long-serving wooden ground-level building — the last such structure on the Maibara–Kyoto stretch — was retired on 19 November 2017 when a 400-square-metre overhead station with a 58-metre cross-corridor opened, adding a south exit, lifts and escalators. Station number JR-A18 followed in March 2018, and a 13-by-4-metre Azuchi-castle wrap was added to the north façade on 30 November 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The new (2017) station's north façade is built as an octagonal tower in vermilion, evoking the keep of Azuchi Castle, and a statue of Oda Nobunaga stands in the station forecourt.