Tawaramachi (Fukui)

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Tawaramachi Station opened on 1 April 1937 as a Mikuni Awara Electric Railway station in what is now the city of Fukui, located slightly further along the line toward Fukudai-mae Nishi-Fukui than the present site. The operator was absorbed by Keifuku Electric Railroad in September 1942, and the station was closed from 20 April 1944. It reopened on 27 November 1950 at a new site, becoming the terminus of the Fukui Railway Fukubu Line and an interchange between the two operators. The Mikuni Awara Line side was suspended in 2001 and reopened as an Echizen Railway station on 20 July 2003. The current station building was placed in service on 31 March 2015, and on 27 March 2016 through-running between Fukui Railway and Echizen Railway began, at which point the Fukui Railway side was restaffed. The multipurpose waiting room "Tawaramachi Muse" opened on 15 January 2018.

The multipurpose waiting room next to the Fukui Railway station building, Tawaramachi Muse, was named by Chōsei Komatsu, a graduate of nearby Fujishima High School. With the University of Fukui's Bunkyō campus, Hokuriku High School and Fujishima High School all in the vicinity, the station is busy with students in the mornings and evenings.