Station

Katsuradai

桂台

Katsuradai
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Katsuradai Station opened on 1967-04-01 as a JNR provisional halt (kari-jōkōjō) on the Senmō Main Line in Abashiri, handling passengers only. With the JNR privatisation on 1987-04-01, the halt was promoted to a full station and passed to JR Hokkaido. Its operating distance was formally set on 1990-03-10, and the building was rebuilt in November 1994. The name combines one character each from the neighbouring districts Katsura-chō to the west and Dai-machi to the east. The unstaffed single-platform station sits halfway up a slope along Hokkaido Prefectural Route 490; uniquely among Senmō Line stations, it falls under the Asahikawa Branch via Abashiri Station management.

Notes

It is the only Senmō Line station managed under JR Hokkaido's Asahikawa Branch rather than the Kushiro Branch.

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