History
Toikanbetsu Station opened on 10 November 1923 as a general station when the Japanese Government Railways Teshio Line was extended from Homare (now Teshio-Nakagawa). The line was renamed Teshio Minami in 1924, became the Teshio Line in 1926, and was absorbed into the Soya Main Line on 1 April 1930. Operation passed to Japanese National Railways in 1949 and to JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Freight ended in 1982 and the station was unstaffed from November 1986, after which the original 1960 wooden building was replaced with a converted Yo3500 brake-van structure on the old foundations. Since April 2021 Horonobe Town has run the station, citing its role as the town's second-largest settlement.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From September 1930 to June 1971 a separate colonisation railway, the later Horonobe Town Railway, started from a platform in front of the station and ran inland to Kami-Toikanbetsu.