History
Higashi-Takikawa was a JR Hokkaido Nemuro Main Line station in Higashi-Takikawa-chō, Takikawa, Hokkaidō, opened on 10 November 1913 by Japanese Government Railways as Horokura Station and renamed Higashi-Takikawa on 10 November 1954. The station ended freight operations on 13 September 1961 and ended parcel handling on 30 May 1982 (unstaffed thereafter), passing to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1 April 1987. JR Hokkaido reported on 23 July 2024 that the station would be abolished in spring 2025, Takikawa City notified JR on 21 August 2024 that it would not seek to keep it operating, and the station was abolished in the 15 March 2025 timetable revision while the site continues as Higashi-Takikawa signal block.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The original name Horokura comes from the Ainu word for the local Porokura River; researcher Hideo Yamada associated it with poro-ku-rar ("big river where a bow is set"), and the rename to Higashi-Takikawa ("east of Takikawa") followed an internal town-name reform in 1955.