History
Bizen-Kataoka Station opened on 1 January 1939 as an intermediate stop on the Uno Line, then operated by the Japanese Government Railways and later Japanese National Railways. The station sits on the Okayama side of the line, roughly 20.9 km from the Okayama terminus and 6 km from Chayamachi. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, which still operates it today. The station consists of two opposed ground-level side platforms linked by a footbridge and has been unattended for decades; in fiscal 2019 it averaged 235 passengers per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.