Awaraonsen

Known weekday departures: 105/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 105/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:41 / 23:51

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 7 August 2026 (latest retrieval in spring/summer 2026): the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Hapi Line Fukui: Hosorogi ⇄ Maruoka
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Kagaonsen ⇄ Fukui

The station opened on 20 September 1897 as Kanazu Station when the government railway was extended from Fukui to Komatsu, and was renamed Awaraonsen on 15 March 1972 following the closure of the JNR Mikuni Line and its Ashihara Station. Parcel handling ended on 1 November 1986, and the station passed to JR West and JR Freight at the 1987 privatisation. ICOCA reached the station in September 2018, and work on the Shinkansen station building began in November 2020. With the Kanazawa–Tsuruga extension on 16 March 2024, a new elevated Shinkansen station opened and the original conventional-line facilities were transferred to Hapi-Line Fukui, leaving JR West to operate only the Shinkansen platforms.

The station has elevators because the innkeepers of Awara Onsen, organised as the Wakakusakai, petitioned the mayor in October 2009 for barrier-free access — the request prompted JR West to announce new lifts, and two were completed in 2015.