History
Kakarima Station opened on 1927-12-25 as a general station of the private Oshima Coast Railway when that line was extended from Higashi-Mori provisional halt to Sunahara; the original station stood at a different site. When the Oshima Coast Railway was nationalised on 1945-01-25, the station was rebuilt on a new alignment and reopened as part of the Hakodate Main Line. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1971-10-26 and the station was unstaffed from the same day. The building was rebuilt in March 1987, and JR Hokkaido inherited the station that 1 April. The station retains its passing layout with two staggered side platforms connected by a footbridge; it is managed unstaffed from Mori. Station numbers were introduced on 2007-10-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name reflects the local district: the Japanese expression funa-kakarima ('inlet for mooring boats') was shortened to kakarima and given the kanji 掛澗.