Takatama Station

Takatama Station 高擶駅
Takatama Station platform, October 2005
Location	Nagaoka, Tendō, Yamagata （山形県天童市大字長岡） Japan
Coordinates	38°19′52″N 140°21′32″E / 38.331014°N 140.359014°ECoordinates: 38°19′52″N 140°21′32″E / 38.331014°N 140.359014°E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Ōu Main Line
Connections
History
Opened	1952

Takatama Station (高擶駅 Takatama-eki) is a railway station on the Ōu Main Line in Tendō, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Takatama Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is located 97.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Fukushima Station.^[1]

Station layout

Takatama Station has one side platform for bi-directional traffic. The station is unstaffed.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line)
Tsubasa: Does not stop at this station
Urushiyama		Local		Tendō-Minami

History

Takatama Station opened on 5 March 1952.^[2] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.^[1] A new station building was completed in 1999.

Surrounding area

The area around the station is a dormitory community which then gives way in the west to rice paddies and fields and to the east to the mountains.

• Uyō-Gakuen College

References

1. Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] II. Japan: JTB. p. 530. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
2. 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 126. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.

External links

• JR East Station information (Japanese)