Wakasa-Takahama

Weekday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:54 / 21:55

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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 incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Mitsumatsu (Fukui) ⇄ Wakasa-Wada

Wakasa-Takahama Station opened on 3 April 1921 as the terminus of the Obama Line's extension from Obama, with passenger and freight handling. On 20 December 1922 the line was pushed further to Higashi-Maizuru, making the station an intermediate stop. Freight was withdrawn on 15 March 1973 and parcel duties on 1 February 1984. With the 1 April 1987 breakup of JNR it became a JR West station. The station building was rebuilt as part of a 2-storey shared facility called "Machi no Eki Plat Home Takahama" on 1 April 2007, and the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office closed on 9 March 2025, with simplified-outsource staffing slated for withdrawal thereafter. The stop sits in Miyazaki, Takahama, Ōi District, Fukui Prefecture and is the principal station of Takahama Town.

On 5 October 1968 an Imperial special carrying Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun departed Wakasa-Takahama for Toyooka, timed with the 23rd National Sports Festival.