History
Shin-Yoshino Station opened on 1910-01-07 as Shita-Korobe Station, a general station of the Japanese Government Railways. The original Ainu-derived name proved unwieldy and was changed on 1942-04-01 to Shin-Yoshino. Freight handling ended on 1983-05-20, parcels on 1984-02-01, and the last staff on 1984-12-01, although JNR clerks continued to sell tickets until 1985-03-31. JR Hokkaido took over in 1987, and the simple commission lapsed on 1992-04-01, leaving the station unstaffed. The 1996 Sekishō/Nemuro speed-up programme replaced the points with elastic turnouts and reconfigured the station as a single-track through layout, retaining the old up-direction loop as a passing-only siding.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Seven hay-and-grass merchants clustered around the station made it Hokkaido's leading shipper of forage to Honshū until trucks took over in the mid-1970s.