History
Tateda Station opened on 1 July 2002 as one of the intermediate stops along the new Asa Line built and operated by the third-sector Tosa Kuroshio Railway, running between Gomen and Nahari in Kōchi Prefecture. The line revived rail service through territory that had been left without trains since the closure of the Tosa Electric Railway Aki Line in 1974; an earlier Tateda Station had existed on that defunct line at very nearly the same spot. The current single-track elevated halt is unstaffed and carries station number GN38. Its working title during planning was "Nisshō," the name of a station on the old Aki Line just to the south.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Tateda is the nearest station to Kōchi Ryōma Airport, and the asaeline mascot statue at the foot of the platform stairs is a girl in a flight-attendant uniform with a propeller-themed toilet block behind her, designed by local cartoonist Takashi Yanase.