Etchu-Funahashi

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Etchū-Funahashi Station opened on 15 August 1931 with the Toyama Electric Railway's openings between Toyama-Denjigata and Kamiichi and between Terada and Gohyakkoku, in the village of Funahashi, Toyama Prefecture. The line was incorporated into the Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line in 1943. The station's location reflected lobbying by Funahashi mayor Inada Kenji, who in 1929 redirected most of the planned route through the village rather than neighbouring Rita. By the late 1980s declining ridership and an aging building had Toyama Chihō Railway considering destaffing. The village responded with a 1990 plan to attach a library to a rebuilt station, completed on 31 March 1998. The station was designated one of the Top 100 Stations in Central Japan in 2000.

Funahashi's village library was built right into the station in 1998 as a way to keep Toyama Chihō Railway from destaffing the platform; first-year per-capita borrowing came in at 51 books per resident, among the highest in Japan.