Kaminaka

Known weekday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:13 / 22:35

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

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 incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Wakasa-Arita ⇄ Shin-Hirano

Kaminaka Station opened on 10 November 1918 as Miyake Station (三宅駅) when the Obama Line was extended from Tomura to Obama, and was renamed Kaminaka on 10 April 1956. Freight handling ended in March 1973 and parcel handling in February 1984. After the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. A new station building opened on 3 March 2005, the first in Fukui Prefecture fitted with an elevator, and the north-side plaza opened that August. The Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office closed on 11 March 2025, and full unstaffing is planned once the simple-consignment contract ends. Two opposed side platforms and a passing loop sit 38.8 km from Tsuruga.

Kaminaka is Fukui Prefecture’s southernmost railway station, and it was once planned as the starting point of the never-built Lake Biwa–Wakasa Bay Rapid Railway.