History
Beppo Station opened on 1 December 1917 as Kami-Beppo Station with the Ministry of Railways' Kushiro Main Line extension between Kushiro and Hama-Akkeshi. The wooden station building was expanded in 1933, and a 1.56 km Pacific Coal Mine spur line opened in November 1937 to handle output from the nearby Beppo colliery. The station was renamed Beppo on 15 November 1952 after the local place-name lost its "Kami" (upper) prefix. Freight handling ended in January 1962 and the station became simple-consignment unstaffed in 1986; JR Hokkaido inherited it at the 1987 JNR privatisation and the consignment arrangement ended on 1 April 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Beppo is the only railway station in Japan whose reading ends in the syllable "po".