History
Takahama-minato Station opened on 5 February 1914 on the privately built Mikawa Railway's first segment from Ōhama-kō to Kariya-shin; freight from local tile, ceramic-pipe, soy-sauce and miso producers, plus coal landed at Takahama port, made it a busy goods stop. The Mikawa Railway joined the Meitetsu group on 1 June 1941, freight handling was withdrawn on 25 May 1977, and the loop was singled in October 1983 once timetables had settled into a clock-face pattern. The station was unstaffed in August 2005, gained Tranpass gates a month later, and the present tile-roofed building opened on 10 March 2016 — its red Sanshū tiles paid for partly by a local cost-share to keep the regional roof style.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When Meitetsu first proposed a tile-less replacement building, the town of Takahama agreed to fund the difference so the new station could keep a traditional Sanshū-tile roof — a nod to the region's centuries-old tile industry.