History
The first Kushiro Station opened on 1901-07-20 as the terminus of the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō between Kushiro and Shiranuka, with a locomotive shed alongside. Operation passed to the government on 1905-04-01. When the line was extended east to Hama-Akkeshi on 1917-12-01 the passenger station was moved to its present site and the original building became Hama-Kushiro freight-only station. The Senmō Main Line began operating from Kushiro on 1927-09-15. The current four-storey "people's station" building was completed on 1961-08-01. JR Hokkaido and JR Freight inherited the stop on 1987-04-01; freight operations were withdrawn on 2006-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kushiro's departure-display board is the easternmost LED-type passenger-information display in Japan, and the station itself is the easternmost stop on a regularly scheduled limited-express service.