Fukui

Weekday departures: 166/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 169/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:21 / 23:20

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (13)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Hapi Line Fukui: Morita ⇄ Echizen-Hanandō
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Awaraonsen ⇄ Echizen-Takefu

Fukui Station, the prefectural capital's principal station, was opened on 15 July 1896 by the state railway as the terminus of the Hokuriku Line from Tsuruga and was extended westward the following year. War damage in 1945 and the 1948 Fukui earthquake destroyed the building twice in three years. After the 1987 JNR breakup the station passed to JR West, and a new building and the "Prism Fukui" shopping mall opened on 18 April 2005. The Hokuriku Shinkansen viaduct above the conventional platforms was structurally completed in February 2009. On 16 March 2024 the shinkansen was extended from Kanazawa to Tsuruga and the parallel conventional line was transferred to Hapi-Line Fukui; the renewed station mall "Kurufu Fukui Station" opened the same day.

A 312-metre island-platform Shinkansen station with just two tracks is unusually compact; the present design replaced an earlier plan for a four-track facility shared with Echizen Railway after that operator's 2001 collision-accident crisis upset the original scheme.