History
Monshizu Station opened on 1 December 1917 as a general station on the Ministry of Railways' extension of the Kushiro Main Line (now the Nemuro Main Line) between Kushiro and Hama-Akkeshi. A 1.9 km private spur line completed on 19 December 1924 carried ballast for track maintenance from a quarry roughly two kilometres to the northeast. Freight handling was abolished in October 1971, parcel handling in February 1984, and the station was reduced to a simple-consignment unstaffed stop in November 1986. JR Hokkaido inherited it at the 1987 JNR privatisation, and the consignment arrangement ended on 1 April 1992 leaving the station fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name comes from the Ainu "moy-sut" — the root of an inlet — which toponymist Yamada Hidezō linked to the gentle shoreline of Akkeshi Bay once read as the inner edge of an inlet.