Katsuta

Weekday departures: 190/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 184/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:27 / 23:44

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (17)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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 complete: Hitachinaka Seaside Railway Minato Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• Hitachinaka Seaside Railway Minato Line: Kokimae
• JR Joban Line: Sawa (Ibaraki) ⇄ Mito (Ibaraki)

Katsuta Station opened on 18 March 1910 as a Railway Bureau Jōban Line station. The Minato Railway (later Ibaraki Kōtsū) began its branch from Katsuta on 25 December 1913, making the depot an interchange. A private siding to Hitachi's Mito Works opened in 1942 and was used for employee trains until 1993. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the 2002 elevated rebuild added a footbridge concourse. After the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake brought down part of the ceiling, JR resumed service on 31 March, with Hitachinaka Seaside Railway services returning on 3 July.

For one day only, on 5 October 2014, the Hitachinaka Seaside Railway's platform name boards at Katsuta were changed to read 勝太駅, swapping the 田 of the station's usual 勝田 for the 太 in the name of Kirifuda Katta (切札勝太), the protagonist of the anime Duel Masters.