History
Keiō-Katakura Station opened on 20 March 1931 as Katakura Station on the Keiō Goryō Line. It became a Tōkyū (Greater Tōkyū) Goryō Line station with the wartime corporate merger of 31 May 1944, and the Goryō Line was suspended as a non-essential wartime line on 21 January 1945. When Keiō Teito Electric Railway was spun off from Tōkyū on 1 June 1948 the station passed to that company, and it reopened on 1 October 1967 as a station on the Takao Line. Because the JNR Yokohama Line had opened its own Katakura Station on 28 December 1957, the reopened stop was renamed Keiō-Katakura. From 22 February 2013 it became a semi-special-express stop, and on 12 March 2022 it became a special-express stop following the abolition of the semi-special-express service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The down-line bridge that carries the line over National Route 16 was built by Yokogawa Bridge Works in 1930 for the opening of the Goryō Line, and its maker's plate still records the date as the fifth year of Shōwa.