This article is about a railway station which previously had the name of Echizen-Takefu. For the current Shinkansen station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen named Echizen-Takefu, see Echizen-Takefu Station.
Takefu-shin Station is the terminal station of the Fukui Railway Fukubu Line, and is located 20.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tawaramachi. 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 bay platforms serving three tracks, with a three-story station building. The station is staffed.
The station opened on February 2, 1924, as Takefu-Shin Station (武生新駅, Takefu-Shin-eki). A new station building was completed in 1983. The station was renamed to Echizen-Takefu Station (越前武生駅, Echizen-Takefu-eki) on March 25, 2010[1]
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 'Echizen-Takefu Station'. 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.[2]
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.
^川本光憲 (February 20, 2010). 新駅は「スポーツ公園駅」 福鉄福武線・武生新－西武生間 [New station named Sports Kōen Station, between Takefu-Shin and Nishi-Takefu, Fukutetsu Fukubu Line] (in Japanese). Chunichi Web. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
