Takamatsu (Kagawa)

Weekday departures: 183/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 183/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:35 / 23:33

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kotoku Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yosan Line: one direction only
• Yosan Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Kotoku Line: Showacho (Kagawa) ⇄ Ritsurin
• Yosan Line: Kozai

Takamatsu Station opened on 21 February 1897 as a station on the Sanuki Railway, when the Takamatsu–Marugame section came into service; it was then sited southwest of its current location, near today's Kagawa Prefectural School for the Blind. It was transferred to the San'yō Railway on 1 December 1904 and nationalized on 1 December 1906. The Uno–Takamatsu ferry began on 12 June 1910, and the station was relocated about 1 km closer to Takamatsu Harbour on 1 July 1910, with a second-generation station building. The Kōtoku Line reached Shido on 1 August 1925. On 15 September 1959 it moved 0.3 km east, absorbing Takamatsu-Sambashi Station. The fourth-generation station building, 0.3 km west of the previous one, opened on 13 May 2001. JR Shikoku took over on 1 April 1987 with the JNR privatization. Because the station was the rail-ferry interchange for the Uno–Takamatsu Renrakusen for 80 years, all platforms are bay platforms allowing level access from the plaza to the platforms.

Because Takamatsu was for 80 years the southern interchange of the Uno–Takamatsu rail ferry to Honshū, every platform is a bay platform that dead-ends at the station building — you can walk straight from the plaza onto any platform without stairs. Tickets are printed '(讃)高松' to distinguish it from JR West's Takamatsu Station on the Nanao Line in Ishikawa, whose tickets are printed '(七)高松'.