History
Kitacho Station opened on 1 November 1986 when Japanese National Railways added a temporary stop on the existing Kotoku Line, 6.7 km from the Takamatsu terminus. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Shikoku, which simultaneously upgraded the temporary stop to a full station and assigned it the code T24. The unstaffed station has a single side platform, no station building, and a small shelter with a ticket machine for waiting passengers. Only local services on the Kotoku Line call here; bicycle parking is provided near the entrance. The platform serves residents of central Takamatsu including students from nearby Takamatsu University and Takamatsu Municipal Kitakita Elementary School.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kitacho was added late in the JNR era as a temporary stop and only became a permanent station the day after privatisation.