History
Katsumada Station opened on 28 November 1934 when the Railway Ministry's Himetsu-Nishi Line (the western half of what is now the Kishin Line) was extended between Mimasaka-Emi and Higashi-Tsuyama. The two halves of the route were joined on 8 April 1936, becoming the unified Himetsu Line and then the Kishin Line on 10 October that year. Freight handling ended on 12 March 1973 and luggage handling on 14 March 1985. The station was placed under simplified consignment management on 1 November 1986, and with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to West Japan Railway Company. A new station building, modelled on the post towns of the Izumo Kaidō, opened on 22 February 2021. The station serves Shōō, Okayama Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Wartime conscripts sometimes traveled out of their way to board at Katsumada because the station name ("victory-among-rice-fields") was considered an auspicious omen for the front.