Kureha

Weekday departures: 87/day · Sat & holiday departures: 87/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 23:52

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (9)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

• Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line: Kosugi (Ainokaze Toyama Railway) ⇄ Toyama

Kureha Station opened on 3 November 1908 as a general station of the state-built Hokuriku Line, inserted between Kosugi and Toyama at Odake in Nishi-Kureha village in Nei-gun. On 16 November 1908 the neighbouring Toyama Station was relocated to its present site, altering the alignment between Kureha and Toyama. The route-name decree of 12 October 1909 placed it on the Hokuriku Main Line, and the line on either side was double-tracked — to Kosugi on 29 September 1958 and to Toyama on 31 May 1960. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and on 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa, it was transferred to the Ainokaze Toyama Railway. A new north entrance entered service on 22 March 2024.

The land for the station was supplied by the village of Nishi-Kureha, which lobbied for the stop and gave up a hillside north of Anekura-hime Shrine to make level ground for the platforms.