History
Wakasa-Takahama Station opened on 3 April 1921 as the terminus of the Obama Line's extension from Obama, with passenger and freight handling. On 20 December 1922 the line was pushed further to Higashi-Maizuru, making the station an intermediate stop. Freight was withdrawn on 15 March 1973 and parcel duties on 1 February 1984. With the 1 April 1987 breakup of JNR it became a JR West station. The station building was rebuilt as part of a 2-storey shared facility called "Machi no Eki Plat Home Takahama" on 1 April 2007, and the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office closed on 9 March 2025, with simplified-outsource staffing slated for withdrawal thereafter. The stop sits in Miyazaki, Takahama, Ōi District, Fukui Prefecture and is the principal station of Takahama Town.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 5 October 1968 an Imperial special carrying Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun departed Wakasa-Takahama for Toyooka, timed with the 23rd National Sports Festival.