Katata

Weekday departures: 138/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 138/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:34 / 24:09 (00:09 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (10)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 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 Kosei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Kosei Line: Ono (Shiga) ⇄ Ogotoonsen

Katata Station is a JR West stop on the Kosei Line in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, located 17.7 kilometres from the line's starting point at Yamashina and 23.2 kilometres from Kyoto. It opened on 20 July 1974 with the Kosei Line itself, originally as a Japanese National Railways station. It passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with privatisation, gained automatic ticket gates on 1 October 1998, accepted ICOCA from 1 November 2003, and was given the station number JR-B25 in March 2018. The station has two elevated island platforms with the station building underneath and a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

The station's name is celebrated in the 1900 Railway Song (Tetsudō Shōka), which mentions Katata even though the station itself would not open for another 74 years; the name is also associated with "Descending Geese at Katata" (Katata no Rakugan), one of the Eight Views of Ōmi, centred on the Ukimidō hall of Mangetsu-ji.