Higashi Takasaki

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:58 / 22:08

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Kitto Line: Takasaki Shinden ⇄ Mangatsuka

Higashi Takasaki Station was opened by Japanese National Railways on 1 December 1963 as an additional stop on the existing Kitto Line in Miyakonojō, Miyazaki Prefecture. A toilet was added to the platform shelter in January 1969. The station passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. It has remained an unstaffed, single-track halt throughout its history, with no station building beyond a waiting shelter and toilet on the side platform; in fiscal 2016 it averaged only 17 boarding passengers per day, making it one of the quieter stops on the Kitto Line.

The station's reading "Takasaki" diverges from the local place-name "Takazaki" (高崎町): the surrounding town is voiced, but the station name has always been unvoiced.