History
Kataoka Station opened on 5 June 1897 as a station of the private Nippon Railway, which was nationalised on 1 November 1906. From 1909 the station was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line under the new line-naming regulations. Freight handling ended in 1962 and parcel handling in 1984, before the station came under JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. A footbridge had been installed in November 1964; the Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket window closed on 31 January 2008. After design work funded by Yaita City in 2010, a new elevated station building with east-west free passageway opened on 19 March 2015, replacing the original at-grade structure. The station serves Yaita in Tochigi Prefecture and lies 135.5 kilometres from Tokyo.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.