History
Takyō Station opened on July 17, 1899 as part of the extension of the Sunzu Line from Nanjō (now Izu-Nagaoka) to Ōhito. Today it is operated by the private railway Izuhakone Railway and is 14.2 kilometers from the line origin at Mishima. The station handled freight from 1936 with a dedicated siding, but freight traffic ended in 1972. A 2015 test by the Railway Technical Research Institute used a superconducting transmission system on the segment between Takyō and Shuzenji in what was reported as a world first for revenue-style trial operation. The station has both an island and a side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.