History
Teshio-Nakagawa Station opened on 8 November 1922 as Ponpira Station when the Japanese Government Railways Teshio Line reached this point from Otoineppu. It was renamed Teshio-Nakagawa on 20 July 1951 after the village council found Ponpira awkward to read and to avoid a clash with Nakagawa Station on the Ōu Main Line. The current wooden building was completed in November 1953. Operation passed to Japanese National Railways in 1949 and to JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Nakagawa Town acquired the building from JR Hokkaido in May 2014 and reopened it that November following a ¥50.7-million refurbishment in locally grown Todo fir that restored the 1953 silhouette.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The 2014 refurbishment converted the old station office into the Nakagawa Town Communications Plaza, a community event space with barrier-free toilets and a free Wi-Fi spot installed by the town.