Mikata

Weekday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:32 / 22:15

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Kiyama (Fukui) ⇄ Fujii

Mikata Station opened on 15 December 1917 on what is now the Obama Line, in the town of Wakasa in Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture. It is located 24.7 km from the terminus at Tsuruga and is operated today by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), having passed from Japanese National Railways at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The layout retains a single island platform; one side is no longer in use and has been turned into a flower bed, while the other side serves a single bi-directional track linked to the station building by an underground passage. The station continues to operate a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.

One side of the original island platform was decommissioned and converted into a flower bed, leaving the in-service edge to function as a single side platform reached from the station building by an underground passage.