History
Mizuho Station opened on 1 September 1956 as a temporary stop (kari-jōkōjō) on the Japanese National Railways Sōya Main Line, between Tayoro and Fūren in northern Hokkaidō. Local residents built the present waiting room and bicycle shelter in June 1978. At the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the stop was promoted to a full passenger station and transferred to JR Hokkaido under the name Mizuho. Its single side platform — wooden and only a single car long — and its rural setting amid Shibetsu's farmland led JR Hokkaido in June 2023 to include the station in a 42-stop shortlist studied for low-ridership abolition.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current waiting room and bicycle shelter were not built by the railway operator — they were constructed in June 1978 by local volunteers.