History
Maruseppu Station opened on 1927-10-10 as a general station, when the Ministry of Railways extended the Sekihoku East Line from Engaru. The Muriii Forest Railway connected at the station in 1928, making it a busy interchange for timber and freight traffic with numerous sidings. The line became the Sekihoku Line in 1932 and the Sekihoku Main Line in 1961. From the 1981-10-01 timetable revision the Limited Express Okhotsk began stopping here. Freight handling ended in 1982, parcels in 1984, and the station was unstaffed from 1984-11-10. JR Hokkaido inherited the station in 1987, rebuilt it in 1988, and replaced it again in 2000 in a combined building with the Maruseppu Lifelong Learning Centre. Since the 2025-03-15 timetable change every passenger train stops here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current building, opened in 2000, is shared with the Maruseppu Lifelong Learning Centre and houses a library and a daycare alongside the station functions.