History
Takaku Station traces its origins to the Takaku signal point opened by the Railway Bureau on 25 June 1914 to provide a passing place on the long Tōhoku Main Line section between Kuroiso and Kurodahara. After more than a decade of local petitioning, the signal point was promoted to a full station on 1 September 1964 in Nasu, Tochigi. A new building was completed on 21 October 1965, the station was destaffed on 14 March 1985, and with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East. Today the two opposed side platforms are linked by a footbridge and serve as an unstaffed local stop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A local barber who lived in front of the station wrote a song to celebrate its 1964 promotion, and the lyrics of the "Takaku Station Completion Festival Song" still hang in the waiting room.