History
Kamikawa Station (station number A43) is on the JR Hokkaido Sekihoku Main Line in Kamikawa, Kamikawa District, Hokkaido. It opened on 15 November 1923 with the extension of the Sekihoku Line from Aibetsu, and after the closure of Kami-Shirataki Station in 2016 the section from Kamikawa to Shirataki — 37.3 km — became the longest gap between adjacent stations on any JR conventional line (excluding shinkansen-shared track). According to Kamikawa Town's Wikipedia article, Kamikawa is in the central part of Hokkaido's Kamikawa area and is the gateway to Sōunkyō Onsen, a leading hot-spring resort, and to the Daisetsuzan National Park via the Kurodake mountain trailhead; the town is also known for the autumn foliage at Daisetsu-Kōgen Onsen, described in its own article as "Japan's finest autumn colours", and promotes itself as a "ramen town".
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The town's Wikipedia article notes that Kamikawa's renowned alpine resource is the Daisetsuzan National Park: a ropeway and chairlift carry visitors from the foot of 1,984 m Mt. Kuro-dake up to the 7th-station level, from where the summit is a roughly one-hour walk, and Aisukeibirion on Route 39 lets visitors experience −41 °C — the all-time low recorded in Hokkaido.