History
Takaoka Station opened on 1898-11-01 when the government-built Hokuriku Line was extended from Kanazawa, on the same site where the privately-owned Chuetsu Railway had reached a provisional terminus from Kuroda earlier that year. On 1909-04-05 the Chuetsu Railway closed its own station and began sharing the government-built facility. Under a 1942-08-01 reorganisation the Chuetsu Line was split at Takaoka into the Himi Line (toward Fushiki) and the Johana Line. JR West took over at privatisation on 1987-04-01, an overhead concourse opened on 2011-08-28, and on 2015-03-14 the conventional Hokuriku Main Line section was transferred to the Ainokaze Toyama Railway when the Hokuriku Shinkansen reached Kanazawa.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Departure melodies at Takaoka are played on the orin singing bowl -- a piece of the city's traditional Takaoka copperware -- in an original composition titled "Koshi no Takaoka."