History
Shin-Fuji opened on 25 December 1923 as a general station on the Ministry of Railways' Nemuro Main Line, between Otanoshike and Kushiro, to serve the private branch line of the Fuji Paper Kushiro Mill. The mill's 3,014 m private siding came into service the same day. A simplified-track siding (Tottori siding) was added on 28 May 1948 in connection with the Yūbetsu Coal Railway, and various port and dockyard sidings followed in the postwar decades. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Hokkaido. JR Freight relocated the functions of Hamakushiro Station here on 1 August 1989, reopening freight handling, and on 12 March 2011 the freight station was renamed Kushiro Freight Terminal. Shin-Fuji is the easternmost station in Japan with regular freight service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name 'Shin-Fuji' (New Fuji) derives from the Fuji Paper Kushiro Mill that prompted its construction; the 'Shin' prefix was added because Fuji Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line already existed. Tickets sold here are printed '(Ne) Shin-Fuji' to distinguish it from the Tōkaidō Shinkansen station of the same name.