History
Takada Station opened on 1 March 1891 as the terminus of the Osaka Railway in what is now Yamatotakada, Nara. The line was extended to Sakurai on 23 May 1893, and on 10 May 1896 the Nanwa Railway began operating south to Kuzu (now Yoshinoguchi). The Kansai Railway absorbed both predecessors — the Osaka Railway in 1900 and the Nanwa Railway in 1904 — and was itself nationalised on 1 October 1907. The 12 October 1909 line-naming reorganisation placed the through route on the Wakayama Line and the Sakurai-bound section on the Sakurai Line. A new station building opened in August 1984. JR West took over on 1 April 1987, and ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tickets show the station as "(Wa) Takada" — the "wa" disambiguates it from JR Kyushu's Takada Station on the Nagasaki Main Line.