Takada Station is served by the 37.7 km Echigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma Line from Myōkō-Kōgen to Naoetsu, and is located 31.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Myōkō-Kōgen and 68.3 kilometers from Nagano.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies.

[1] From this date, Takada Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

[2] Media related to Takada Station (Niigata) at Wikimedia Commons