History
Shiranuka Station opened on 1901-07-20 as a Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō stop on what is now the Nemuro Main Line, and was transferred to the national Ministry of Railways on 1905-04-01. It served as the junction with the 33.1-kilometre Shiranuka Line, which ran north from here between 1964-10-07 and its closure on 1983-10-23, when the branch was replaced by a bus service. The station passed to JR Hokkaido on 1987-04-01 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Today it has one side and one island platform connected by a footbridge, a Midori no Madoguchi office, and acts as the principal stop for Shiranuka town.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 1964 to 1983 Shiranuka was a junction station: the 33.1-kilometre Shiranuka Line ran north from here before being replaced by a town-run bus service.