Takamatsu (Kagawa)

History

Takamatsu Station opened on 21 February 1897 as a station on the Sanuki Railway, when the Takamatsu–Marugame section came into service; it was then sited southwest of its current location, near today's Kagawa Prefectural School for the Blind. It was transferred to the San'yō Railway on 1 December 1904 and nationalized on 1 December 1906. The Uno–Takamatsu ferry began on 12 June 1910, and the station was relocated about 1 km closer to Takamatsu Harbour on 1 July 1910, with a second-generation station building. The Kōtoku Line reached Shido on 1 August 1925. On 15 September 1959 it moved 0.3 km east, absorbing Takamatsu-Sambashi Station. The fourth-generation station building, 0.3 km west of the third, opened on 13 May 2001. JR Shikoku took over on 1 April 1987 with the JNR privatization. Because the station was the rail-ferry interchange for the Uno–Takamatsu Renrakusen for 80 years, all platforms are bay platforms allowing level access from the plaza to the platforms.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.

Notes

Because Takamatsu was for 80 years the southern interchange of the Uno–Takamatsu rail ferry to Honshū, every platform is a bay platform that dead-ends at the station building — you can walk straight from the plaza onto any platform without stairs. Tickets are printed '(讃)高松' to distinguish it from JR West's Takamatsu Station on the Nanao Line in Ishikawa, whose tickets are printed '(七)高松'.