History
Taka Station opened on 15 March 1934 as part of the then Shōbara Line, when the line was extended from Bingo-Shōbara to Bingo-Saijō. The route was absorbed into the Sanshin Line on 10 October 1936 and into today's Geibi Line on 1 July 1937. Goods handling ceased on 11 March 1962 and parcel handling on 1 September 1972. The station became unattended on 31 October 1983 under a simplified-commission arrangement, and at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. The crossing loop was removed in 2010, reducing the layout to one ground-level side platform serving a bi-directional single track. The wooden 1934 station building remains in use. The station sits in Taka-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After the second track was removed in 2010, residents repurposed the abandoned platform as a decorative flower bed; in 2020 the station's average daily boarding count was zero, on the lowest-density section of the entire JR West network.