Kandatsu

Weekday departures: 81/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 77/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:11 / 24:14 (00:14 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Takahama (Ibaraki) ⇄ Tsuchiura

Kandatsu Station opened on 4 November 1895 as a Nippon Railway stop on what is now the Jōban Line, in present-day Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. It passed to the state in 1906 and to JR East and JR Freight at the 1987 JNR breakup. Automatic ticket gates arrived in 1995, scheduled freight workings ceased in 1998, and Suica acceptance began in November 2001. After all limited-express trains were withdrawn in 2015 the station became a local-only stop, and a town-centre redevelopment in 2016 saw the old building close and a temporary one open. A new elevated station building inspired by Lake Kasumigaura's traditional sail-fishing boats opened in 2018, with the through concourse fully in service from 24 March 2019.

Until 1998 the station handled wagonload freight over private sidings, one of which ran to the Shin-Nippon Sekiyū (Nippon Oil) Tsuchiura oil depot and generated high-speed freight trains from Negishi made up entirely of Taki 1000 tank cars; other sidings once served the Sumitomo Cement Kandatsu service station and Hitachi Construction Machinery's Tsuchiura works.