History
Nishi-Takaoka Station began on 19 November 1956 as a signal box between Fukuoka and Takaoka on the Japanese National Railways' Hokuriku Main Line, and was promoted to a passenger station as Nishi-Takaoka on 25 April 1957. Located in the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, the station handles passengers, parcels and small luggage but never accepted delivery services. It was destaffed in 1971, restaffed briefly from December 1987, and finally destaffed again in November 2001 before being operated as a simple-agency station from April 2002. On 14 March 2015 it transferred from JR West to the third-sector Ainokaze Toyama Railway with the Hokuriku Shinkansen's extension to Kanazawa, and ICOCA service began on 26 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nishi-Takaoka started as a signal box on the Hokuriku Main Line in 1956 and was upgraded to a passenger station the following spring.