Nishi-Katsumada

Known weekday departures: 18/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:27 / 21:18

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: Mimasaka-Osaki ⇄ Katsumada

Nishi-Katsumada Station opened on 1 October 1963 as an unstaffed passenger halt on the Kishin Line operated by Japanese National Railways, built as a petition station with construction funded entirely by the local community. The station sits 77.3 kilometres from the line's southern terminus at Himeji and serves the town of Shōō in Okayama Prefecture. With the privatisation and dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The station has no building; a slope from the roadside leads directly to the single side platform.

The station's waiting-room seating and fare chart were targets of an arson attack in 2008.