Mikata

Weekday departures: 24/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:32 / 22:15

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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• JR Obama Line: Kiyama (Fukui) ⇄ Fujii

Mikata Station opened on 15 December 1917 on what is now the Obama Line, in the town of Wakasa in Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture. It is located 24.7 km from the terminus at Tsuruga and is operated today by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), having passed from Japanese National Railways at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The layout retains a single island platform; one side is no longer in use and has been turned into a flower bed, while the other side serves a single bi-directional track linked to the station building by an underground passage. The station continues to operate a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.

One side of the original island platform was decommissioned and converted into a flower bed, leaving the in-service edge to function as a single side platform reached from the station building by an underground passage.