History
Otoineppu Station opened on 5 November 1912 as part of the Railway Agency's Sōya Line when the route was extended from Onneppu. Within a decade it had become a junction of regional importance: the Sōya/Tempoku branch toward Otoineppu–Otonbetsu opened in November 1914, and the Teshio Line reached the station in November 1922. The depot was a base for locomotive crews from 1919 until the Sōya engine shed closed in 1978. With the dissolution of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Hokkaido. After the Tempoku Line shut in 1989, the wooden building was replaced in 1990 by the village-funded Otoineppu Transport Terminal.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Otoineppu is the JR Hokkaido limited-express stop located in the least-populous municipality in the network — the entire host village had fewer than a thousand residents at the 2020 census.