History
Shiokari Station began on 5 September 1916 as a signal post on the Railway Bureau's Sōya Line, was reclassified a signal station on 1 April 1922, and was promoted to a full passenger stop on 25 November 1924 as settler traffic and the nearby Shiokari Onsen built up custom. The station passed to Japanese National Railways in 1949 and was fully unstaffed by 1986. JR Hokkaido inherited it at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In April 2021, after JR Hokkaido flagged the stop for possible closure, the town of Wassamu took over maintenance, with running costs covered mostly by furusato-nōzei donations.
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 platform marks the spot of the 1909 runaway-coach accident that killed railway clerk Masao Nagano — the incident inspired Ayako Miura's 1966 novel Shiokari Pass.