History
Yakuri-tozanguchi Station is the lower terminus of the Yakuri Cable Line, operated by Shikoku Cable Co., in Mure-cho Mure, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The site has a complicated history with two distinct generations of cable railway. The original Yakuri Mountain Railway opened the line between Yakuri-tozanguchi and Yakuri-sanjo on 15 February 1931. That service was suspended on 11 February 1944 with rails and materials surrendered for wartime use, and the line was formally abolished on 25 December 1960. The present-day Yakuri Cable Line, run by Shikoku Cable, reopened the route on 28 December 1964, and the station building today also houses Shikoku Cable's corporate head office. There are currently no bus services to the station; visitors typically walk roughly 20-30 minutes from Yakuri Station on the Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad (Kotoden) some 1.5 km away, or take a taxi — a Kotoden Bus route used to serve the cable line but was abolished in the 1990s.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Yakuri-tozanguchi serves as the lower terminus of the cable railway up Mt. Yakuri, the 85th stop on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage circuit (Yakuriji); the station building doubles as Shikoku Cable Co.'s corporate headquarters, an unusually direct merger of operating company and station infrastructure.