Station

Nishinagata-Yurinosato

西長田ゆりの里

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Nishinagata-Yurinosato
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Timetable information

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

Location

History

The station opened on 30 December 1928 as Nishinagata Station on the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway between Fukuiguchi and the present Awara Yunomachi. From 15 June 1931 the Maruoka Railway branch ran from here to Maruoka. Mikuni Awara merged into the Keifuku Electric Railroad on 1 August 1942 and Keifuku absorbed the Maruoka Railway on 1 December 1944; the Maruoka Line was abolished on 11 July 1968. Operations were suspended from 25 June 2001, the station was transferred to Echizen Railway in February 2003, and services resumed in stages from 20 July 2003. The station was renamed to its present name on 25 March 2017, and a new station building entered service on 29 April 2021.

Notes

A bay-platform stub on the east side of the island platform is the surviving trace of the long-closed Maruoka Line, which once branched from here toward Maruoka until its abolition in 1968.

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