Banden

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Banden Station opened on 30 December 1928 with the inaugural Mikuni-Awara Electric Railway service between Fukui-guchi and Ashihara (today Awarayunomachi). Following a merger of Mikuni-Awara Electric Railway into Keifuku Electric Railroad on 1 August 1942, the stop became a station of the Keifuku Mikuni-Awara Line. Operations were suspended on 24 June 2001 following the Keifuku Echizen Main Line head-on collision, which forced an island-wide shutdown. On 1 February 2003 the station's facilities were transferred from Keifuku to the newly created Echizen Railway, and operations resumed on 10 August 2003 with the reopening of the Nishi-Nagata (today Nishi-Nagata-Yurinosato) to Mikunikō section.

Banden sits among rice fields, and although the Awara Onsen hot-spring resort can be seen to the north of the station the nearer stop for it is Awarayunomachi, one station up the line.