Kataoka

Weekday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:53 / 22:17

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Main Line: Yaita ⇄ Kamasusaka

Kataoka Station opened on 5 June 1897 as a station of the private Nippon Railway, which was nationalised on 1 November 1906. From 1909 the station was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line under the new line-naming regulations. Freight handling ended in 1962 and parcel handling in 1984, before the station came under JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. A footbridge had been installed in November 1964. After design work funded by Yaita City in 2010, a new elevated station building with east-west free passageway opened on 19 March 2015, replacing the earlier at-grade structure. The station serves Yaita in Tochigi Prefecture and lies 135.5 kilometres from Tokyo.