History
Katahama Station opened on 21 March 1987 as the last station built by Japanese National Railways before its privatisation, located on the Tōkaidō Main Line between Numazu and Hara in suburban Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was a request-station whose entire ¥275 million construction cost was borne locally. JR Central took over operations on 1 April 1987. Lifts were installed on 28 February 2007, eliminating the prior wheelchair-ramp configuration, and TOICA IC-card service began on 1 March 2008. Station numbering CA04 was assigned in March 2018. On 1 June 2025 the station was de-staffed with the introduction of JR Central's Customer Support Service and assist-equipped reserved-seat ticket machines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Katahama platforms have ten-car capacity; from 2004 the eleven-car JR East through-trains that had previously called here would close the rearmost door, until that service was withdrawn in the October 2004 timetable revision. The English Wikipedia article gives 2,452 daily boarding passengers in fiscal 2017, while the Japanese article cites 4,433 daily boarding-plus-alighting passengers in fiscal 2024.