History
Naka-Aibetsu Station opened on 15 November 1923 when the Hokkaido Government Railway extended its Sekihoku Line between Aibetsu and Kamikawa, placing the new stop in the village (now town) of Aibetsu in Hokkaido's Kamikawa District. After successive line-name reorganisations it became part of the Sekihoku Main Line in 1961, and at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to JR Hokkaido. The wooden station building was rebuilt in 1988, and from 1989 the stop has been fully unstaffed. Today it remains a quiet two-platform halt served only by local trains, sitting between rice paddies and the Ishikari River in farmland north of Asahikawa.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name is literally "middle Aibetsu," coined because the station sits in what was then the geographic centre of Aibetsu village.