History
Memuro Station is a JR Hokkaido station on the Nemuro Main Line in the town of Memuro, Kasai District, located 30.2 km from the line's starting point at Shintoku. It opened on 8 September 1907 as a station of the Japanese Government Railways. The original station buildings were rebuilt in 1924 and again in 1958. After the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station came under JR Hokkaido. Day-to-day operations were transferred to a JR group services contractor in 1997, and the station building was extensively renovated in 1999 with a mechanical clock installed on the front facade. It retains a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The mechanical clock installed on the front of the station performs six animated shows daily between late April and late October, accompanied by four additional audio-only performances.