History
Katsuradai Station opened on 1967-04-01 as a JNR provisional halt (kari-jōkōjō) on the Senmō Main Line in Abashiri, handling passengers only. With the JNR privatisation on 1987-04-01, the halt was promoted to a full station and passed to JR Hokkaido. Its operating distance was formally set on 1990-03-10, and the building was rebuilt in November 1994. The name combines one character each from the neighbouring districts Katsura-chō to the west and Dai-machi to the east. The unstaffed single-platform station sits halfway up a slope along Hokkaido Prefectural Route 490; uniquely among Senmō Line stations, it falls under the Asahikawa Branch via Abashiri Station management.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
It is the only Senmō Line station managed under JR Hokkaido's Asahikawa Branch rather than the Kushiro Branch.