History
Oboro Station opened on 1 December 1917 as a general station with the Ministry of Railways' extension of the Kushiro Main Line (later the Nemuro Main Line) between Kushiro and Hama-Akkeshi. Freight handling was withdrawn in October 1971, parcel handling and simple-consignment operation followed in 1984, and the timber station building was replaced by a converted caboose around 1986. JR Hokkaido inherited the stop at the 1987 JNR privatisation, and the simple-consignment arrangement was wound up later in the 1990s, leaving it fully unstaffed. The station is on the long list of low-ridership halts JR Hokkaido proposed for abolition in June 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current waiting room is a railway caboose set down on the platform after the original wooden station building was auctioned off in 1986.