Kitago (Fukui)

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Kitago Station opened on 23 February 1924 as Nishi-Takefu Station on the newly inaugurated Fukubu Electric Railway, in what is now the city of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture. It became a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line station on 1 August 1945 with the founding of that company. Freight handling ended on 3 October 1979, and the station was made unstaffed on 17 May 1990. It was renamed Kitago Station on 25 March 2010. The original wooden station building was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in December 2013, and the rail workshop in the station grounds received the same designation in November 2015. The Kitago Station Railway Museum opened at the station on 19 March 2023.

The 1924 wooden station building and the adjoining train workshop are both Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan.