History
Attoko Station opened on 1919-11-25 as a general station when the Imperial Railway Bureau extended the Kushiro Main Line (now the Nemuro Main Line) east from Akkeshi; it was the first railway station in the Nemuro Subprefecture. With the extension to Nishi-Wada in November 1920 it became an intermediate station, and from 1933-12-01 it served as the junction for the Shibetsu Line. A colonisation railway ran from the station front to Shibetsu (1925) and later to Kamifūren. The current third-generation building, doubling as a bus waiting room, was opened in November 1989 after the Shibetsu Line closed on 1989-04-30. Freight handling ended in 1979 and parcels in 1984. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation, the simple-commission ticket office closed on 1995-09-01, and the station has been unstaffed since. The 2016-03-26 timetable change reduced the layout to a single track.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1964 students of nearby Atsutoko School have run an annual 'Suzuran Okuri' event in early June, handing lilies-of-the-valley through the carriage windows to passing passengers — a tradition begun by the school's principal and student council in response to a Hokkaido government tourism campaign.