Tarōmaru Station

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Operated by Echizen Railway Address Japan		Line(s) Mikuni Awara Line Opened 1928

Location 4 Nishi-Tarōmaru, Harue-chō, Sakai, Fukui （福井県坂井市春江町西太郎丸4） Japan Similar Nishi‑Harue Station, Nishi‑Nagata Station, Shimo‑Hyōgo Station, Washizuka‑Haribara Station, Mizui Station

Tarōmaru Station (太郎丸駅, Tarōmaru-eki) is an Echizen Railway Mikuni Awara Line railway station located in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

Station

All Mikuni Awara Line trains serve Tarōmaru Station. There is one track serving a single platform, and the station is unstaffed.

Newly built residences lie to the east of the station, while rice fields and a park-and-ride lot are to the west.

JR West Harue Station is approximately two kilometers east of the station.

Other points of interest include:

Fukui Prefecture Drivers Education Center (Testing Center)

Sakai City Bunka-no-Mori cultural facility

Heartpia Harue (Sakai City Harue Library, meeting halls)

Communication Park

Fukui Prefecture Children's Science Museum (Engelland Fukui)

December 30, 1928: Station opens.

September 1, 1942: Keifuku Electric Railway merges with Mikuni Awara Electric Railway.

June 25, 2001: Operations halted due to accident on the Echizen Main Line.

July 20, 2003: Station reopens as an Echizen Railway station.

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