Kataoka

Weekday departures: 38/day · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:53 / 22:17

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Tōhoku Main Line: Yaita ⇄ Kamasusaka

Kataoka Station opened on 5 June 1897 as a station of the private Nippon Railway, which was nationalised on 1 November 1906. From 1909 the station was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line under the new line-naming regulations. Freight handling ended in 1962 and parcel handling in 1984, before the station came under JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. A footbridge had been installed in November 1964; the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket window closed on 31 January 2008. After design work funded by Yaita City in 2010, a new elevated station building with east-west free passageway opened on 19 March 2015, replacing the original at-grade structure. The station serves Yaita in Tochigi Prefecture and lies 135.5 kilometres from Tokyo.