History
Takahagi Station opened on 1897-02-25 as a Nippon Railway stop, was nationalised on 1906-11-01, and was placed on the Joban Line by the 1909 line-naming reform. The present second-generation wooden station building dates from April 1926. Limited expresses began calling at the station on 1978-10-02, and a Midori-no-Madoguchi reserved-ticket window opened in May 1980. JR East and JR Freight took over at privatisation on 1987-04-01; the JR Freight station was formally closed on 2006-04-01. Suica acceptance began on 2008-03-14 as the Tokyo suburban fare area expanded, and a new accessible footbridge with lifts entered service on 2011-04-07 after being delayed by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 2013-11-01 the departure melody has been "Ashita no Kaze to Hitotsu ni Natte", composed to mark the unveiling of a bronze statue of the local-born cartographer Sekisui Nagakubo in the station forecourt.