is a

Fukui Railway is a bus and railway company located in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It owns and operates the Fukubu Line between Tawaramachi Station in Fukui and Takefu-shin Station in Echizen. Overview Although Fukui Railway's name refers to its fou ...

Fukubu Line The is a railway line operated by Fukui Railway in Fukui Prefecture. The line runs from Takefu-shin Station in Echizen to and stations in Fukui. Although it has its own right-of-way for most of the route, the Fukubu Line runs with traffic as ...

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located in the city of Echizen,

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Lines

Takefu-shin Station is the

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of the

Fukui Railway Fukubu Line The is a railway line operated by Fukui Railway in Fukui Prefecture. The line runs from Takefu-shin Station in Echizen, Fukui, Echizen to and stations in Fukui, Fukui, Fukui. Although it has its own right-of-way for most of the route, the Fuku ...

, and is located 20.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at . There are several bus lines operating from a rotary near the south exit and stops by the west exit.

Station layout

The station consists of two

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s serving three tracks, with a three-story station building. The station is staffed.

Adjacent stations

History

The station opened on February 2, 1924, as . A new station building was completed in 1983. The station was renamed to on March 25, 2010 With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Tsuruga, it was decided that one of the new Shinkansen stations would be given the name '

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'. As the station name is also being used by Fukui Railways, a poll was conducted to choose a new name for this station. Besides the reverting the station name back to 'Takefu-Shin Station', the 5 other suggests were 'Fukutetsu-Takefu Station', 'Fukutetsu-Echizen Station', 'Kikuka-Takefu Station', and 'Echizen-Fuchu Station'. The results of the poll was to rename this station to Takefu-shin Station with 'Takefu' being written in hiragana rather than kanji. This came into effect on February 25, 2023.

Surrounding area

*Various government facilities including Echizen City Hall and municipal library are nearby. *The AL.PLAZA supermarket is just outside the station's front entrance. *

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on the

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Hokuriku Main Line The Hokuriku Main Line () is a railway line owned by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) connecting Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga, with Tsuruga Station in Tsuruga, Fukui. The line formerly extended as far as Naoetsu Station in ...

is located 250 meters to the south. *

on the

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is located 5 km to the east.

References

External links

* {{Fukui Railway Fukubu Line Railway stations in Fukui Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924 Fukui Railway Fukubu Line Echizen, Fukui