History
Toshibetsu Station opened on 1904-12-15 as a stop on the Hokkaido Government Railway, which was annexed to the Japanese Government Railways on 1905-04-01. On 1967-11-01 the station was relocated roughly 630 metres toward Takikawa, the move forced by reconstruction of the deteriorating Toshibetsu River bridge and the embankment work that accompanied it; a single-storey reinforced-concrete building was put up at the new site, and freight handling ended that same year. Parcel handling was discontinued on 1984-02-01 and the station became unstaffed on 1984-12-01. With the privatisation of JNR on 1987-04-01 it came under JR Hokkaido.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
During the Second World War a military spur ran from Toshibetsu to a relocated Imperial Army aircraft repair workshop, evacuated here from the Obihiro airfield in 1944.