Station

Taka

Taka
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Train service

Weekday departures: 11/day · Sat & holiday departures: 11/day

First / last train (weekday): 7:15 / 19:52

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Taka Station opened on 15 March 1934 as part of the then Shōbara Line, when the line was extended from Bingo-Shōbara to Bingo-Saijō. The route was absorbed into the Sanshin Line on 10 October 1936 and into today's Geibi Line on 1 July 1937. Goods handling ceased on 11 March 1962 and parcel handling on 1 September 1972. The station became unattended on 31 October 1983 under a simplified-commission arrangement, and at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. The crossing loop was removed in 2010, reducing the layout to one ground-level side platform serving a bi-directional single track. The wooden 1934 station building remains in use. The station sits in Taka-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Notes

After the second track was removed in 2010, residents repurposed the abandoned platform as a decorative flower bed; in 2020 the station's average daily boarding count was zero, on the lowest-density section of the entire JR West network.

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