History
Takahata Station opened on 21 April 1900 as Nukanome Station on the Ōu Main Line in southern Yamagata Prefecture. It was renamed Takahata on 16 March 1991 to coincide with the introduction of Yamagata Shinkansen service. The junction station now hosts both the Yamagata Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line and lies 49.9 kilometres from the Fukushima terminus, with two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge and a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office. Takahata is unusual among Japanese railway stations in housing a hot-spring bath on its premises, alongside facilities catering to visitors of the local Takahata Winery.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Takahata Station has an onsen hot-spring bath on its premises — a feature shared by very few stations on the Japanese network.