Hakui

Weekday departures: 26/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 26/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:40 / 22:39

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Nanao Line: one direction only

• Nanao Line: Chiji ⇄ Minami-Hakui

Hakui Station opened on 24 April 1898 as a passenger and freight stop when the Nanao Railway completed its line from the Tsubata provisional station (the forerunner of Hon-Tsubata) through Nanao to Yatashin. Nationalisation on 1 September 1907 placed it under the Imperial Railway Agency, and the 1909 line-naming reform assigned it to the Nanao Line. From 1925 to 1972 the station was also the terminus of the Hokuriku Railroad Noto Line. JR West took over the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987, the Nanao Line was electrified at DC on 1 September 1991, and ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021; today the west entrance is contracted to JR West Kanazawa Maintech and the east entrance is staffed under a simple-commission arrangement with the City of Hakui.

The city of Hakui markets itself as Japan's "UFO town", and the plaza in front of the station is lit by lamp standards shaped like flying saucers.