Chugoku-Katsuyama

Known weekday departures: 20/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 20/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:41 / 21:57

Busiest hour (known departures): 20:00–21:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Kishin Line: Kuse ⇄ Tsukida

Chūgoku-Katsuyama Station, in the city of Maniwa in Okayama Prefecture, opened on 15 March 1925 as the terminus of the Sakubi Line extension from Kuse. Its name carries the prefix of the Chūgoku region to distinguish it from Katsuyama Station in Fukui; rather than the old province name "Mimasaka," the prefix "Chūgoku" was adopted after a Katsuyama town councillor argued that the Katsuyama with a future was the one in the Chūgoku region, not the one in Mimasaka. The line was incorporated into the Kishin Line in October 1936. Freight ended in 1980 and parcel service in 1985. JR West inherited the station at JNR's privatisation in 1987. The station became unattended on 2 October 1999, and in April 2000 the station building was refurbished, its flat roof replaced by a tiled one.

When the station was named in 1925, a town councillor argued that "the future Katsuyama of importance will be in the Chūgoku region, not Mimasaka," winning the regional prefix used to this day.