History
Muroran Station is the terminus of the 7.0 km Muroran Main Line branch from Higashi-Muroran. The current facility opened on 1897-07-01 as the second-generation Muroran Station at Hotokezaka-shita, after the first-generation station (1892) at Wanishi was relocated; the building moved again in 1904 to nearby Kaigan-chō. Control passed to JR Hokkaido at the JNR breakup on 1987-04-01. On 1997-10-01 the station was rebuilt 1.1 km east at a site near the original Hotokezaka-shita position; the 1912 third-generation wooden building was preserved, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 1999 and designated a Quasi Railway Memorial in 2010. The Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 2024-09-30 and the station was fully unstaffed from 2024-10-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The preserved 1912 wooden third-generation Muroran Station building was added to Japan Heritage in 2019 as part of the "Coal, Rail and Port" (Tantetsukō) story linking Hokkaido's industrial sites.