Katsumada

Known weekday departures: 22/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:10 / 22:05

Busiest hour (known departures): 19:00–20:00 (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: Nishi-Katsumada ⇄ Hayashino

Katsumada Station opened on 28 November 1934 when the Railway Ministry's Himetsu-Nishi Line (now part of the Kishin Line) was extended between Mimasaka-Emi and Higashi-Tsuyama. The route was completed through from Himeji to Higashi-Tsuyama on 8 April 1936, when the Himetsu-Nishi Line became part of the Himetsu Line, and the Himetsu Line in turn became part of the Kishin Line on 10 October that year. Freight handling ended on 12 March 1973 and luggage handling on 14 March 1985. The station was placed under simplified consignment management on 1 November 1986, and with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to West Japan Railway Company. A new station building, modelled on the post towns of the Izumo Kaidō, opened on 22 February 2021. The station serves Shōō, Okayama Prefecture.

Wartime conscripts sometimes traveled out of their way to board at Katsumada because the station name ("victory-among-rice-fields") was considered an auspicious omen for the front.