History
Hosooka Station opened on 1927-09-15 as a general station of the Ministry of Railways Senmō Main Line when the section between Kushiro and Shibecha was inaugurated. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1973-02-05 with the cutback to a simple consigned operation, and the last staff were withdrawn on 1984-02-01. The stop passed to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1987-04-01, and the original 1927 building was replaced in June 1993 by the present 25 m² log-cabin shelter. From 2023-03-18 it was redesignated a temporary station with winter trains no longer stopping, and now operates seasonally from 25 April to 30 November each year.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In FY2022 Hosooka was used by an average of 0.2 passengers a day, and the modern building is a log cabin within Kushiro-shitsugen National Park that doubles as the end-point of canoe descents on the Kushiro River.