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Tarōmaru Station

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Operated by
  
Echizen Railway

Address
  
Japan

Line(s)
  
Mikuni Awara Line

Opened
  
1928

Tarōmaru Station

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.

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Station

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

Surrounding area

  • 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)

    • History

  • 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.

    • References

    Tarōmaru Station Wikipedia
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