History
Yamubetsu Station opened on 1925-11-10 as a general station when Japanese Government Railways extended the line between Kitahama and Shari. The opening was greeted with a welcome arch and bunting on the platform, and a 14-car inaugural train was met by local schoolchildren. From 1930 the private Kitami Railway terminated nearby, running mixed trains to central Koshimizu; that line closed on 1939-08-25. The station building was rebuilt in November 1968. Freight handling ended in September 1982, parcels in February 1984, and the last staff left in March 1984, after which the station was simply commissioned. JR Hokkaido took over in 1987, and the station has been fully unstaffed since the commissioning was later dropped.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The former staff office of the wooden station building now houses a ramen and coffee shop named 'Ekibasha'.