History
Tōya Station is an unstaffed JR Hokkaido station on the Senmō Main Line, located in the town of Kushiro, Hokkaidō, 7.4 km from the line's starting point at Higashi-Kushiro. It opened on 15 September 1927 when the Ministry of Railways inaugurated the section of the Senmō Main Line between Kushiro and Shibecha. Freight operations were withdrawn in 1960 and full staffing was discontinued in 1986. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR Hokkaido, and the present station building dates from a 1988 reconstruction. The station serves a single side platform handling traffic in both directions.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name derives from the Ainu word "toya" (沼の岸, "bank of a marsh"), though no marsh exists at the present site.