Katahama

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Katahama Station opened on 21 March 1987 as the last station built by Japanese National Railways before its privatisation, located on the Tōkaidō Main Line between Numazu and Hara in suburban Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was a request-station whose entire ¥275 million construction cost was borne locally. JR Central took over operations on 1 April 1987. Lifts were installed on 28 February 2007, eliminating the prior wheelchair-ramp configuration, and TOICA IC-card service began on 1 March 2008. Station numbering CA04 was assigned in March 2018. On 1 June 2025 the station was de-staffed with the introduction of JR Central's Customer Support Service and assist-equipped reserved-seat ticket machines.

Katahama's platforms have ten-car capacity; the eleven-car JR East through-services that called here until the October 2004 timetable revision had to keep the doors of the rearmost car closed. Ridership figures vary by source and year: 2,452 daily boarding passengers in fiscal 2017, and 4,433 daily boarding-plus-alighting passengers in fiscal 2024.