History
Kembuchi Station opened on 5 August 1900 with the extension of the Hokkaido Government Railway Teshio Line between Wassamu and Shibetsu, and the reading of its name was changed from 'Kenufuchi' to 'Kembuchi' on 1 April 1905 when control passed to the national Railway Operations Bureau. After the line was reorganised as the Sōya Main Line in 1919, the station continued as a general stop. Freight and parcel handling ended in the early 1980s, and the station was fully demanned by 1986. JR Hokkaido inherited it in April 1987, and a new station building combining a bus terminal and a town tourism centre opened in November 1988, with a further full refurbishment in 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building doubles as a Kenbuchi-managed bus terminal and a tourism shop where local products such as tomato juice are sold; tourist maps of the area also hang beside each platform's name sign.