History
Misaki Station traces its history to 1892-08-01, when the Hokkaido Colliery Railway placed a freight stop at Etsukerep at the same time as it opened its original Muroran terminus at Wanishi. The freight stop was formally opened as Misaki Station on 1905-06-21, handling freight only at first. Nationalisation followed in October 1906. The Japan Steel Works private railway began running from here to its factory, a distance of 10.5 km, on 1912-10-04, and a new building with a passenger platform opened on 1922-06-01. Freight handling ended on 1986-11-01, when the station was unstaffed, and JR Hokkaido inherited it at the 1987 privatisation. The simple commission run by a station-front shop lapsed when the shop closed on 2017-04-01, leaving the station fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A stone marker labelled 'Birthplace of the Muroran Line', erected on the platform on 1958-08-01, commemorates the station's proximity to the Etochikerep Cape jetty that served as the line's original planned starting point; when staffed, the station even had a matching commemorative ink stamp.