is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in the city of Yamatotakada,

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, Japan. It is operated by

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(JR West). There is a transfer to Yamato-Takada Station on the

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Lines

Although the station is on the

Sakurai Line The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Nara Prefecture. It connects Nara Station, Nara on the Yamatoji Line to Takada Station (Nara), Takada on the Wakayama Line, with some services continuing on the Wakayama L ...

as rail infrastructure, it has been served by the Man-yō Mahoroba Line since 2010 in terms of passenger train services. It is 29.4 kilometers from the starting point of the line at . The station is also served by the

Wakayama Line The is a railway line that links Nara Prefecture to Wakayama Prefecture, both in the Kansai region of Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Ōji Station on the Yamatoji Line to Wakayama Station on the Hanwa Line ...

, and is 11.2 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Layout

Takada Station is an above-ground station with two platforms and three tracks, one

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and one

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with two tracks, connected by an elevated station building. Platform 1 is mainly used in the mornings and evenings. It can accommodate trains with up to six cars. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office. file:JR Takada sta 001.jpg, View from the east file:JRwestTakada Station Platform 2008-08-31.jpg, Platforms

Platforms

History

Takada Station was opened on 1 March 1891 as a terminal station on the Osaka Railway. The line was extended to on 23 May 1893. On 10 May 1896, the Nanwa Railway began operations from this station to Kuzu Station (now . On 6 June 1900 the Kansai Railway took over the Osaka Railway, followed by the Nanwa Railway on 9 December 1904. The Kansai Railway itself was nationalized on 1 October 1907. On 12 October 1909, the section between Oji Station and

Wakayamashi Station is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Nankai Electric Railway.. To distinguish it from Wakayama Station (JR West, Wakayama Railway), the ...

, including this station, became the Wakayama Line, and the section from this station to Sakurai Station became the Sakurai Line. The current station building was completed on 1 August 1984. With the privatization of the

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(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to

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Passenger statistics

The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2020 was 1771 passengers.調査・統計
- Yamatotakada City。

Surrounding area

*Yamatotakada City Hall *Yamatotakada Municipal Hospital

References

External links

Official website
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1891 Railway stations in Nara Prefecture Yamatotakada, Nara {{Nara-railstation-stub