History
Kurisawa Station opened on 1894-10-01 as Kiyomappu Station, a general-traffic stop on the Hokkaido Colliery & Railway line between Kuriyama and Iwamizawa. The route was nationalised in 1906 and folded into the Muroran Main Line on 1909-10-12. The station building was rebuilt in 1916 and again in 1937, and the stop was renamed Kurisawa on 1949-09-01. Freight handling ended on 1972-07-01, the station was destaffed on 1984-04-01, and JR Hokkaido took over at privatisation on 1987-04-01. A simpler one-storey building, still in use today, was completed in November 1989.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original name Kiyomappu came from the Ainu "ki-oma-p" meaning a stream with reed grass; the present name Kurisawa is read either as a translation of Ainu "yam-o-nay" (chestnut-rich river) or as a literal reference to the chestnut trees once growing nearby.