History
Nishi-Katsumada Station opened on 1 October 1963 as an unstaffed passenger halt on the Kishin Line operated by Japanese National Railways, built as a petition station with construction funded entirely by the local community. The station sits 77.3 kilometres from the line's southern terminus at Himeji and serves the town of Shōō in Okayama Prefecture. With the privatisation and dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The station has no building; a slope from the roadside leads directly to the single side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station's waiting-room seating and fare chart were targets of an arson attack in 2008.