History
Kombumori Station opened on 1 February 1961 as an unmanned passenger halt on the Nemuro Main Line east of Ochiishi in what is now the city of Nemuro. JR Hokkaido inherited the stop on 1 April 1987 at the JNR break-up. In the 15 March 2025 timetable revision local services were cut and the one remaining up-direction train that had skipped the station was removed, so every local now stops here; the same revision closed Higashi-Nemuro Station, which made Kombumori the easternmost unstaffed station in Japan. In June 2023 the station was listed among 42 across the JR Hokkaido network slated for review on grounds of low ridership.
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
Since the 15 March 2025 closure of Higashi-Nemuro, Kombumori is the easternmost unstaffed railway station in Japan.