Kii-Katsuura

Weekday departures: 36/day · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:45 / 23:30

Busiest hour: 13:00–14:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kisei Line: Kii-Tenma ⇄ Yukawa

Kii-Katsuura Station opened on 4 December 1912 as Katsuura Station, the southern terminus of the privately operated Shingu Railway in what is now Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture. When the line was nationalised on 1 July 1934 it took its present name to distinguish it from Katsuura Station in Chiba. The station joined the Kisei West Line in 1940 and the through Kisei Main Line when that opened in July 1959. The station building was rebuilt in 1977 as the present two-storey concrete structure, and JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. Today it is the southern terminus of JR Central's Nanki from Nagoya and a stop on JR West's Kuroshio from Shin-Ōsaka.

The footbridge inside the station was redecorated in November 2004 to evoke the shrine architecture of Nachi Taisha, marking the UNESCO World Heritage listing of "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range," for which Kii-Katsuura is a principal railhead.