History
Futamata Station was a station of the JR Hokkaido Hakodate Main Line in Futaba, Oshamambe Town, Yamakoshi District, Hokkaido (Oshima Subprefecture), until its closure on 14 March 2026 with the timetable revision. It opened as a general station on 3 November 1903 with the Hokkaido Railway's Mori–Nettan section, was nationalised on 1 July 1907, and became a Hakodate Main Line station when the national-line nomenclature was established on 12 October 1909. Freight handling ceased on 7 February 1975, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the passing siding was removed with the station's de-staffing on 1 November 1986; the old building was replaced with a freight-car body building in January 1987. The station was inherited by JR Hokkaido at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 and assigned station number S32 in 2007. Oshamambe Town sits in the northern Oshima Subprefecture across the narrow neck of the Oshima Peninsula and has long been seen as a transport hub linking the Sea of Japan and Pacific sides of Hokkaido; the town's article records that Futamata Station opened in 1903 together with the neighbouring Kuninui and Oshamambe stations, and Oshamambe adopted town status in 1943.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Oshamambe article notes that Futamata, Kuninui and Oshamambe stations all opened together with the Hokkaido Railway's Mori–Nettan section on 3 November 1903 — the station entry adds that the final Futamata station building was a converted Wa-1 covered freight car, the only such conversion in Hokkaido (other unstaffed stations on the network typically used converted brake-vans).