Station

Oshio (Fukui)

王子保

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Oshio (Fukui)
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 55/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 55/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:47 / 23:46

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (4)


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

Timetable data as of 7 August 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Ōshio Station opened on 20 December 1927 in what is now the city of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, as a regular stop on the Japanese Government Railways' Hokuriku Main Line. Freight and parcel handling ended on 25 March 1971, when the stop was simultaneously destaffed. The station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and was finally rendered unstaffed of even contracted personnel on 1 April 2014. ICOCA IC-card service began on 15 September 2018. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kanazawa to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024 the parallel conventional line was transferred from JR West to the third-sector Hapi-Line Fukui, and Ōshio passed to that operator on the same date.

Notes

The name comes from the village of Ōshio in Nanjō District, the municipality that existed when the station opened; the wooden, mortar-clad station building stands on the up-line side.

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