| Takada Station | |
| Native Name: | 高田駅 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Symbol Location: | jp |
| Symbol: | jrw |
| Style: | JR West |
| Address: | 1-1, Takasagochō, Yamatotakada-shi, Nara-ken 635-0081 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 34.5162°N 135.7448°W |
| Line: | |
| Distance: |
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| Platforms: | 1 side + 1 island |
| Tracks: | 3 |
| Bus Stands: | 1 |
| Connections: |
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| Structure: | At grade |
| Parking: | Available |
| Bicycle: | Available |
| Accessible: | Yes (2 elevators for the ticket gate, 3 for each platform, and 1 accessible bathroom) |
| Rebuilt: | 1984 |
| Electrified: | 1980 |
| Passengers: | 1771 daily |
| Pass Year: | FY2020 |
| Services Collapsible: | yes |
| Map Type: | Japan Nara Prefecture#Japan Kansai#Japan |
| Map Dot Label: | Takada Station |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Yamatotakada, Nara, Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). There is a transfer to Yamato-Takada Station on the Osaka Line of Kintetsu Railway.
Although the station is on the Sakurai Line as rail infrastructure, it has been served by the Man-yō Mahoroba Line since 2010 in terms of passenger train services. It is 29.4 kilometers from the starting point of the line at . The station is also served by the Wakayama Line, and is 11.2 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .
Takada Station is an above-ground station with two platforms and three tracks, one side platform and one island platform with two tracks, connected by an elevated station building. Platform 1 is mainly used in the mornings and evenings. It can accommodate trains with up to six cars. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.[1]
Takada Station was opened on 1 March 1891 as a terminal station on the Osaka Railway. The line was extended to on 23 May 1893. On 10 May 1896, the Nanwa Railway began operations from this station to Kuzu Station (now . On 6 June 1900 the Kansai Railway took over the Osaka Railway, followed by the Nanwa Railway on 9 December 1904. The Kansai Railway itself was nationalized on 1 October 1907. On 12 October 1909, the section between Oji Station and Wakayamashi Station, including this station, became the Wakayama Line, and the section from this station to Sakurai Station became the Sakurai Line. The current station building was completed on 1 August 1984. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR West.
The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2020 was 1771 passengers.[2] [3] 。