History
Nukanan Station sits on the Sōya Main Line in Horonobe, Hokkaido, and was established on 2 December 1955 as a Japanese National Railways provisional halt for passenger traffic on the local diesel services then being introduced. It was only upgraded to a full station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation that placed it under JR Hokkaido. The stop has been unstaffed throughout its history and has no station building; a converted prefabricated shed across a wooden walkway serves as the waiting room. JR Hokkaido proposed closure in 2016 and again in 2019, but Horonobe Town agreed to fund upkeep from 2021 to keep the stop open, citing its growing fame as a remote 'hikyō' destination.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The waiting hut is a Yodogawa Steel prefabricated storage shed donated by the manufacturer in 2015 after a television appearance, and a Christmas Eve gathering has been held here annually since that year.