History
Bettoga Station opened on 10 November 1920 with the Ministry of Railways' extension of the Kushiro Main Line (later Nemuro Main Line) between Atsutoko and Nishi-Wada. Freight handling was discontinued on 15 July 1979 and luggage handling on 1 February 1984. The station building was rebuilt as a converted freight wagon shelter in 1986, the same year the position was made unstaffed under simple-trust operation. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, operations passed to JR Hokkaido. Simple-trust operation ended and the station became fully unattended on 1 April 1992. In June 2023 it was named in a JR Hokkaido shortlist of 42 stations under consideration for abolition because of persistently low ridership.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name derives from the Ainu phrase "pet-utka", meaning a place where shallow river water swirls over rocks.