Katsunumabudokyo

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Katsunuma-budōkyō Station, on the JR East Chūō Main Line in the city of Kōshū in Yamanashi Prefecture, originated as the Ōhikage signal stop on 1 April 1913. One week later, on 8 April, it was upgraded to a full station under the name Katsunuma. Originally built as a switchback to ease the steep gradient, the switchback layout was discontinued on 30 August 1968 when the line was double-tracked. The current two-storey station building opened in October 1980. With JNR's 1987 privatisation the station came under JR East, and it was renamed Katsunuma-budōkyō ('Katsunuma grape country') on 1 April 1993. Suica entered service in October 2004.

When the switchback was abolished in 1968, remnants of the former alignment were preserved as a park, including a restored stretch of the old platform; its reproduction Japanese National Railways nameboard gives the neighbouring station as 'Hatsukano' rather than today's Kai-Yamato, in keeping with the earlier period it recreates.