History
Numanohata Station opened on 1 February 1898 as a general station of the privately owned Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company. Following the company's nationalisation on 1 October 1906, the station passed to the Ministry of Railways. The Chitose Line of the second Hokkaido Railway joined here on 21 August 1926, and the Kanayama Line (later Tomiuchi Line) of Hokkaido Mining Railway had opened from this station on 24 July 1922. Both lines were taken into state ownership on 1 August 1943. Electrification of the Muroran Main and Chitose lines opened on 1 October 1980, and freight handling ended on 15 May 1980. The station was inherited by JR Hokkaido on 1 April 1987 and a north-south free passageway and new station building opened on 18 December 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Trains heading south from Numanohata enter the longest straight stretch of railway track in Japan, a 28.7 km tangent that runs almost to Shiraoi Station.