Takano

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:12 / 22:07

Busiest hour: 5:00–6:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Inbi Line: Mimasaka-Takio ⇄ Higashi-Tsuyama

Takano Station opened on 15 March 1928 when the Railway Ministry extended the southern Inbi Line from Mimasaka-Kamo to Tsuyama, in what was then Takano-mura, Tomata-gun, Okayama. When Takano-mura was absorbed into Tsuyama City on 1 July 1954, its address became Takano-Hongō, Tsuyama. The station passed to JR West at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. On 29 November 1997, with the abolition of the express "Sakyū", the station was destaffed and its passing track removed; what had been a two-platform two-track layout became a single-platform single-line halt, with the old Chizu-direction platform retained as a relic.

When the express "Sakyū" was discontinued in November 1997, the disused Chizu-direction track was severed from the main line but its platform remained; the connecting structure between the two former platforms was the inside-the-station footpath crossing, since taken out of regular use.