Tsuruga

Weekday departures: 155/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 157/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:20 / 22:54

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (12)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 7 August 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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 complete: Hokuriku Line, Hokuriku Shinkansen, Hapi Line Fukui

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Nishi-Tsuruga
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Echizen-Takefu
• Hokuriku Line: Shin-Hikida

Tsuruga Station opened on 10 March 1882 when the government railway reached the Sea of Japan coast at what is now Tsuruga, Fukui. The through route was completed via the Yanagase Tunnel on 16 April 1884, and a Hokuriku Line branch toward Fukui opened on 15 July 1896. The current site dates from a relocation on 1 June 1909, and the second-generation building was lost in a 1945 air raid before the fourth-generation station building opened in March 1951. The section on to Imajō was electrified on alternating current and double-tracked on 10 June 1962, when the Hokuriku Tunnel opened. On 16 March 2024 the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa terminated here, and the Tsuruga–Daishōji section of the Hokuriku Main Line passed from JR West to the new Hapi-Line Fukui operator.

The Shinkansen platforms sit 21 metres above ground level — the tallest in the network — because the elevated structure had to clear a National Route 8 viaduct on the north side of the station.