History
Tokachi-Shimizu Station opened on 1907-09-08 as Shimizu Station on the Japanese Government Railways, and from 1926-06-16 was joined in front of its building by the Kasai Railway — later the Tokachi Railway Shimizu Branch. To avoid confusion with a Tōkaidō Main Line stop being renamed Shimizu, the name was changed to Tokachi-Shimizu on 1934-11-20. The Tokachi Railway branch closed on 1951-07-01. Freight handling and other facilities were progressively wound down through the 1980s and the station passed to JR Hokkaido on 1987-04-01. Track-side improvements for higher-speed Sekishō and Nemuro line operation were carried out in FY1994, and ticket-vending was withdrawn in February 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since the closure of Tokachi-Mitsumata Station on the Shihoro Line on 1987-03-23, Tokachi-Shimizu has been the sole JR station whose name carries the historic province name "Tokachi".