Showacho (Kagawa)

Weekday departures: 54/day · Sat & holiday departures: 54/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:42 / 22:53

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kotoku Line: Takamatsu (Kagawa) ⇄ Ritsurinkoen Kitaguchi

Shōwachō Station opened on 23 March 1987 as a new stop on the existing Japanese National Railways Kōtoku Line, in the city of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. The station operated under JNR for only nine days: on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Shikoku at privatisation, making Shōwachō one of the very last stops opened by JNR. The official renaming of the route from Kōtoku Main Line to Kōtoku Line followed on 1 June 1988. A side platform serving a single track sits without a station building; the unstaffed halt is equipped with a small shelter containing an automatic ticket machine, and the platform can hold a four-car formation. Station numbering (T27) is in use, but unusually for the area ICOCA is not accepted.

A nearby crossing 200 m to the south is officially named 'Yakyū Fumikiri' (Baseball Crossing) because baseball players from Kagawa Prefectural Takamatsu Commercial High School once used it to reach a practice ground on the other side of the tracks; a JR Shikoku interpretive sign was erected on the spot in September 2003.