Takatama Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 高擶駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Nagaoka, Tendō-shi, Yamagata-ken |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 38.331°N 140.359°W |
Operator: | JR East |
Distance: | 97.0 km from |
Line: | Ōu Main Line |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | 5 March 1952 |
Map Type: | Japan Yamagata Tendo# Japan Yamagata Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Takatama Station |
is a railway station in the city of Tendō, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Takatama Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is located 97km (60miles) rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Fukushima Station.
The station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.
Takatama Station opened on 5 March 1952.[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.[2] A new station building was completed in 1999.
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.