The design and distribution of models for the North American market are handled by their U.S. subsidiary, Kato USA, founded in 1986[1] and located in Schaumburg, Illinois.

What distinguishes Unitrack from other brands of integrated roadbed track is Kato's Unijoiner.

Kato N-scale locomotive features include: and on some models: A multiple train control system named KATO Digital was introduced in the late 1980s for HO scale model trains.

[3] Although an important milestone for Kato, KATO Digital was not very successful; both the controller units and the decoder modules required for the locomotives were expensive, and locomotives equipped with a KATO Digital decoder could not be used on conventional systems, making it difficult to run one's locomotives on friends' layouts or club layouts.

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