History
Ishikari-Numata Station opened on 1910-11-23 as Numata Station, a general station on the Imperial Railway Bureau's Rumoi Line between Fukagawa and Rumoi. It was renamed Ishikari-Numata on 1924-04-25 to distinguish it from the new Numata Station on the Jōetsu South Line in Gunma. The Sasshō North Line reached the station from Nakatoppu (later Shintotsukawa) on 1931-10-10, making it a junction; the Sasshō section was suspended as a 'non-essential line' during the Pacific War on 1944-07-21 and was fully restored on 1956-11-16. The Sasshō Line between Shintotsukawa and here closed on 1972-06-19, leaving it an intermediate station. JR Hokkaido inherited it in 1987; closure of the Rumoi Main Line beyond here on 2023-04-01 made it the terminus, and the Fukagawa–Ishikari-Numata section closed on 2026-04-01, retiring the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The town and station owe their name to the entrepreneur Numata Kisaburō, who in 1903 moved his land-reclamation company's office to this site and donated land for the railway right-of-way; the village was renamed Numata after him in 1922.