History
Yūfutsu Station opened on 1913-10-01 as a stop on the Tomakomai Light Railway. The line was nationalised on 1927-08-01 and renamed the Hidaka Line under the Ministry of Railways, becoming the Hidaka Main Line in 1943. On 1962-12-02 the station was relocated north of its original site in conjunction with the realignment of the Tomakomai - Hama-Atsuma section, prompted by Tomakomai Port construction. Freight handling ended on 1982-11-15 and baggage handling on 1984-02-01, after which the station was unstaffed. Control passed to JR Hokkaido on 1987-04-01 with the privatisation of JNR.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until around 1980 a private siding from Yūfutsu served the Yamaiō Kokusaku Pulp (later Nippon Paper) Yūfutsu mill, and the station's long covered walkway between platform and station building still preserves the alignment of those vanished freight tracks.