History
Takaoka Station of Manyosen is the northern terminus of the Takaoka Kidō Line, located within the Ainokaze Toyama Railway / JR West Takaoka Station complex in Shimosekimachi, Takaoka, Toyama. The merged station building has been a community-developed "public station" (民衆駅) since 1966; Manyosen's tram-stop platform sits beneath the AnotCo-route concourse on the north side. Manyosen and predecessor operators have served the location since 10 April 1948, when the Toyama Chihō Railway opened the Jitetsu-Takaoka–Fushiki-kō section that became today's Takaoka Kidō Line. Under successive operators — Kaetsunō Railway from 1 April 1959, Manyosen from 1 April 2002 — the tram station became the de facto northern terminus of the Manyo line system, signed simply as "Manyosen".
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 1966 Takaoka Station was one of the postwar "public stations" (民衆駅) built jointly with the local Chamber of Commerce — its three above-ground floors housed 63 souvenir shops on the 2F, food courts on the 3F, and a basement shopping street with 28 food and tea-shop tenants opened later in December 1969.