History
Takamatsu Station opened on 24 April 1898 with the simultaneous opening of the Nanao Railway between its Tsubata provisional halt (predecessor of Hon-Tsubata Station) and Yada-shin (later Nanao-Kō). The Nanao Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907 and the line was redesignated as the Nanao Line in October 1909. The station building was rebuilt in December 1956, freight ended in 1971, the station became commission-operated in 1982 and parcels ended in 1984. It passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and became fully unstaffed on 13 March 2021, the same day ICOCA became usable.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because the JR Shikoku Yosan and Kōtoku Lines also have a Takamatsu Station — in Kagawa Prefecture — tickets from this Takamatsu are stamped "(七) 高松" identifying the Nanao Line, and ICOCA usage history is recorded as "高松七".