History
Kushiro-Shitsugen Station opened on 1988-07-23 as a JR Hokkaido temporary station on the Senmō Main Line, set up to coincide with the designation of the surrounding Kushiro-shitsugen National Park the previous year. It originally ran only in summer and autumn and replaced a brief two-day predecessor named Yanchabōzu-mura that operated on 1987-08-08 and 09 for an event marking the park designation. The stop was upgraded to a permanent station on 1996-12-01. Its larch log-cabin building, opened with the station, has a roof shaped to resemble a red-crowned crane in flight; original opening forecasts of 200 daily users were not met.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station roof imitates a red-crowned crane with its wings spread, and the larch log cabin was designed to harmonise with Kushiro-shitsugen National Park immediately outside the platform.