History
Pippu Station opened on 25 November 1898 with the extension of the Hokkaido Government Railway's Teshio Line between Nagayama and Ranru, placing the new stop in what was then Pippu hamlet on the rapidly developing Pippu plain. Its presence helped Pippu separate from Takasu and become an independent village in 1906. Subsequent route renamings — Sōya Line in 1912, Sōya Main Line in 1919 — left the station on the line linking Asahikawa with Wakkanai. Freight handling ended in 1978 and the original 1898/1934 station building was retired in 2015. Pippu Town replaced it in 2016 with a wooden single-storey building modelled on the old depot, housing a café and gift shop alongside the unstaffed waiting room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Pippu is the only currently-operating JR station whose name begins with a handakuten syllable (the small circle marking "pi"); its quirky pronunciation made it the star of a long-running 1980 "Pip Elekiban" TV commercial.