History
Taga Taisha-mae Station opened on 8 March 1914 as Taga Station, the terminus of the Ohmi Railway Taga Line in what is now Taga town, Shiga Prefecture. The Takamiya to Taga section was electrified on 12 March 1925. From 1960 onwards the station handled limestone freight between adjacent cement plants, and from 1974 it served a Kirin brewery siding, but cement-related shipments ended in March 1986. The station was renamed Taga Taisha-mae on 1 April 1998 to advertise its role as the gateway to Taga Taisha, and the present community-house station building was completed on 19 December 2002. Staffed operations ended on 1 April 2010 and the station has been unattended since.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In November 2020 the station signed a sister-station agreement with Wanhua Station in Taipei, which serves Bangka Lungshan Temple, pairing two shrine-front terminals across the Seibu-Taiwan Railways friendship.