History
Ebeotsu Station opened on 1898-07-16 as a general station on the Hokkaido Government Railway, about 7.7 km north of Takikawa. Because the original site was peat bog unsuitable for farming or settlement, the station was relocated in 1901 to its present position 378.2 km from Hakodate. Operations passed to the Imperial Railway Bureau in 1905. The third building, with a wooden footbridge, replaced an aging predecessor in February 1926, and the present (fourth) building was completed in February 1953. Typhoon Tōyamaru (Typhoon 15) collapsed the footbridge in September 1954, and a reinforced-concrete replacement opened in February 1955. The Takikawa–Ebeotsu section was double-tracked in September 1966 and the Takikawa–Asahikawa stretch electrified in October 1969. Freight ended in 1982, parcels in 1984, and the last staff in 1984; the simple commission lapsed on 2003-04-01. JR Hokkaido inherited the station in 1987 and added Kitaca IC card service on 2024-03-16.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's footbridge was destroyed by Typhoon Tōyamaru on 26 September 1954, and a reinforced-concrete replacement was put into service the following February.