Katsura

Known weekday departures: 474/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 448/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:27 / 24:02 (00:02 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (32)

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 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Hankyu Kyoto Main Line: Nishikyogoku ⇄ Rakusaiguchi
• Hankyu Arashiyama Line: Kamikatsura

Katsura Station opened on 1 November 1928 with the New Keihan Railway extension between Takatsuki-machi (today Takatsukishi) and Kyoto-Saiin (today Saiin), and on 9 November of the same year became a junction when the Arashiyama Line opened. Mergers carried the station into Keihan Electric Railway in 1930, into Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway in 1943, and into Hankyū Railway following the 1973 name change. A 1985 reconstruction replaced the earlier four-platform-seven-track layout with the present three island platforms and six tracks, allowing express overtaking and freeing the eastern site for the MEW Hankyu Katsura retail building. Station numbering designated it HK-81 on 21 December 2013.

Katsura is the only Hankyu station whose name is written with a single kanji character (桂).