History
Yuni Station opened on 1 August 1892 as a general station with the Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company's completion of the line between Muroran (now Higashi-Muroran) and Iwamizawa. Nationalisation in 1906 placed it on the state railway's Hokkaido Line, and the distinctive American-style station building of 1928 — featuring a mansard roof and weatherboarded porte-cochère — served passengers until its demolition in August 2006. Following the JNR privatisation in 1987 JR Hokkaido took over operations, and in 2007 the town built the "Poppo-kan Yuni" community facility on the cleared site, which now functions as the de-facto station building at this otherwise unstaffed stop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 3 October 1936 Emperor Shōwa boarded an Imperial Train at Yuni for Sapporo as part of the army's special grand manoeuvres, an event still recorded in local town histories.