Despite being located in Hyogo Prefecture, the station's name is "Bizen-Fukukawa."

Bizen—that is, the name of an old province referring to the area of ​​present-day Okayama Prefecture.

Why does a station in Hyogo Prefecture bear the name of an Okayama province?

The answer is simple: the area where this station is located was once part of Okayama Prefecture.

The station remained in the same location, but at some point, the prefecture itself changed.

Everyone knows about municipal mergers.

But what happens when the merger partner is a neighboring prefecture?

In Japan, there have been many instances where towns and villages have crossed prefectural borders into neighboring prefectures, redrawing the prefectural borders on the map of Japan.

On the other hand, there are also lines where the merger date was even decided, but ultimately remained unchanged.

Why did they try so hard to change the prefecture? And where did this difference come from?

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