History
Kunnui Station (station number H49) is on the JR Hokkaido Hakodate Main Line in Kunnui, Oshamambe Town, Yamakoshi District, Hokkaido. It opened as a general station on 3 November 1903 with the Hokkaido Railway's Mori–Nettan section, was relocated about 1.1 km toward the former Nakanosawa direction on 17 January 1907, was nationalised on 1 July 1907, and became a Hakodate Main Line station with the national-line nomenclature on 12 October 1909. It was the junction with the JNR Setana Line — opened to Hanaishi on 13 December 1929 and through to Setana on 1 November 1932 — which was abolished on 16 March 1987. The station was inherited by JR Hokkaido at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987, made fully unstaffed on 1 April 1992, and assigned station number H49 in 2007. Oshamambe Town sits in the northern Oshima Subprefecture, across the narrow neck of the Oshima Peninsula, and has long been recognised as a transport hub linking the Sea of Japan and Pacific sides of Hokkaido; the town's article records that Kunnui Station opened in 1903 together with the neighbouring Oshamambe and Futamata stations, and Oshamambe adopted town status in 1943.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Oshamambe article records that Kuninui (Kunnui) was the location of the Battle of Kuninui during Shakushain's War in 1669, where Shakushain's forces were defeated by the matchlock-armed Matsumae Domain. The same article registers Kunnui as one of the three stations — alongside Oshamambe and Futamata — opened on 3 November 1903 when the Hokkaido Railway extended its line from Mori to Nettan.