Nagao (Kagawa)

History

Nagao opened on 30 April 1912 with the inauguration of the Takamatsu Electric Tramway. It became a Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad (Kotoden) Nagao Line station through the 1 November 1943 wartime merger. The present station building dates from a 26 April 1986 rebuild. A park-and-ride car park was opened on 1 July 2007, and outdoor security cameras came into service in March 2013.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Local communities lobbied hard for the future Nagao Line station: Nagao Higashi-machi wanted it near Kakutsuru Sake Brewery in the east, while Nagao Nishi-machi wanted it next to Nagao-ji Temple. The Takamatsu Electric Tramway settled the dispute by announcing, without warning, that the station would be built at neither of the proposed sites but a third location to the west. The line is rumoured to curve gently east of the station because it was once intended to be extended past the temple toward Shirotori-honchō; the operator did obtain the extension licence (held 1912–1916) and reportedly bought some land for the work, but the licence lapsed and the extension was never built.