History
Takeoka Station opened on 16 June 1926 as a temporary stop on what is now the JR East Uchibō Line, taking its name from the village of Takeoka in whose territory it then stood. It was upgraded to a full station on 1 August 1930, freight handling was discontinued in October 1962, and the station became unattended in March 1985. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East. The wooden station building was demolished in November 2006 and a new waiting room completed in February 2007. From 14 March 2009 the station accepts Suica and is included in the Tokyo metropolitan suburban zone.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A 1995 Seishun 18 Ticket poster featured Takeoka Station in a tie-up with Pocari Sweat starring Emiri Nakayama, and a fictional “Kakeoka Station” modelled on it appeared in the 2016 anime Dagashi Kashi.