Kusatsu (Shiga)

Weekday departures: 296/day · Sat & holiday departures: 296/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:57 / 24:43 (00:43 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (21)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kusatsu Line: Tehara
• Tokaido Main Line: Ritto ⇄ Minami-Kusatsu

Kusatsu Station is a junction station in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and serving both the Tōkaidō Main Line (Biwako Line) and the Kusatsu Line. It opened on 1 July 1889 as a government-railway station and within months connected to the privately built Kansai Railway, which was nationalised in 1907. The line through Kusatsu was electrified on 19 November 1956 and the present elevated station concourse opened on 12 April 1967, the first overhead-concourse rail station in Shiga. Quadruple-tracking between Kusatsu and Kyoto was completed on 9 March 1970, JR West took over at privatisation in 1987, ICOCA support began in 2003, and station number JR-A24 was assigned in March 2018.

Kusatsu Station is the eastern start of Japan's longest stretch of quadruple track: roughly 120 kilometres of paired pairs continue uninterrupted from here through Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe to Nishi-Akashi.