History
Takada Station opened on 1 March 1891 as a terminal of the original Osaka Railway. The line was extended to Sakurai in May 1893, and the Nanwa Railway began service south to Kuzu (now Yoshinoguchi) in May 1896, making the station a junction. The Kansai Railway absorbed the Osaka Railway in 1900 and the Nanwa Railway in 1904, then was nationalised in 1907. With the 1909 line-naming reform the Ōji-Wakayamashi section became the Wakayama Line and the Sakurai branch the Sakurai Line. A new elevated station building was completed on 1 August 1984, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.