History
Shōwachō Station opened on 23 March 1987 as a new stop on the existing Japanese National Railways Kōtoku Line, in the city of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The station operated under JNR for only nine days: on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Shikoku at privatisation, making Shōwachō one of the very last stops opened by JNR. The official renaming of the route from Kōtoku Main Line to Kōtoku Line followed on 1 June 1988. A side platform serving a single track sits without a station building; the unstaffed halt is equipped with a small shelter containing an automatic ticket machine, and the platform can hold a four-car formation. Station numbering (T27) is in use, but unusually for the area ICOCA is not accepted.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A nearby crossing 200 m to the south is officially named 'Yakyū Fumikiri' (Baseball Crossing) because pre-war Takamatsu Commercial High School baseball players used it to reach a practice ground across the tracks; a JR Shikoku interpretive sign was erected on the spot in 2003.