Toyohoro

History

Toyohoro Station opened on 1 November 1956 as a passenger-only Japanese National Railways stop on the Hakodate Main Line in Ebetsu, Hokkaidō. The stop became unstaffed under a simple consignment arrangement in October 1978 and passed to JR Hokkaido at the 1987 JNR privatisation. Automatic fare gates were installed on 10 July 1999, and Kitaca IC card acceptance began on 25 October 2008; the simple consignment was later wound up and the station fully unstaffed. Originally serving a sparsely populated locality bypassed by some local trains, Toyohoro now anchors a commuter neighbourhood on the south bank of the Ishikari River.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The flood-prone confluence of the Ishikari, Yūbari and Horomui rivers next to the station inundated the platform up to roughly three metres in August 1981, and Ebetsu city hazard maps still project up to ten metres of flooding here.