History
Katori Station opened on 10 November 1931 as a passenger and freight station of the Railway Ministry, in what is now Katori, Chiba Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1961, and the station became unstaffed on 1 July 1970 — only weeks before the Kashima Line opened on 20 August 1970 with this station as its line-record starting point. Around 1986 the wooden station building was replaced by a converted boxcar, then by the present reinforced-concrete building on 24 December 2007, designed to evoke Katori Shrine. Suica IC service began on the Narita Line in March 2009 and the Kashima Line in March 2020. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station carries the city name "Katori", the central station for the city of Katori is the neighbouring Sawara Station.