History
Takasaki Shinden Station opened on 11 May 1913 as one of several intermediate stops when Japanese Government Railways extended its Miyazaki Line southeast from Kobayashi to Tanigashira. The track was redesignated as part of the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923 and then split off as the Kitto Line on 6 December 1932 with Miyakonojō as the starting point. The current modern flat-roofed concrete station building was completed in 1969. Freight services were discontinued in 1980 and baggage handling in 1984. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu. It is now unstaffed and the building functions as a waiting room; the island platform is reached by level crossing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite being on a stretch of track opened in 1913, the current concrete station building dates only from 1969.