History
Toyotomi Station opened on 25 September 1926 as a general station on the Ministry of Railways' Teshio Line. On 1 April 1930 the Teshio Line was absorbed into the Sōya Main Line, and the station became part of that line. The Nisso Coal Mine Teshio Mining Works private railway branched off from the station from 13 February 1940 until its full closure on 29 July 1972. The current second-generation station building was completed on 4 August 1966 together with a footbridge, both costing twenty million yen. Freight and parcel handling were abolished on 1 February 1984 and on-site ticket operations followed later that year; the station was unstaffed for train operations from 1 November 1986. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Hokkaido.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Toyotomi has the heaviest use of any unstaffed station between Nayoro and Wakkanai, exceeding even the staffed stations at Otoineppu and Horonobe. The station was once known together with the now-closed Tokumitsu Station for souvenir 'lucky tickets' on the wordplay that 'virtue is full, abundant wealth is gained'.