Station

Eiheijiguchi

永平寺口

Eiheijiguchi
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Eiheijiguchi Station opened on 11 February 1914 as Eiheiji Station on the Kyoto Electric Light Company's Echizen Electric Railway. The connecting Eiheiji Railway built a branch to Eiheijimon-Mae (1925) and a separate line from Kanazu (1929), making the station a junction. It was renamed Eiheijiguchi on 1 January 1927, and renamed Higashi-Furuichi when the Eiheiji Railway merged into Keifuku Electric Railway in December 1944. The Kanazu branch closed in 1969. Two serious collisions in 2000 and 2001 led to a full line suspension; services resumed under Echizen Railway on 20 July 2003 and the present name was restored. A new station building opened on 11 April 2014.

Notes

The original 1914 wooden station building, preserved as a registered cultural property, was used as a filming location for the 1972 Tora-san film Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shibamata Bojō.

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