History
Mori opened on 28 June 1903 as the terminus of the Hokkaido Railway between Hongō (the present Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto) and Mori, becoming an intermediate station on 3 November the same year when the line was extended to Nepu. The railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907 and the station was assigned to the Hakodate Main Line on 12 October 1909. The Oshima Coastal Railway, which connected from Mori to Sunagawa, opened on 25 December 1927 and was nationalised and abolished simultaneously on 25 January 1945, becoming the Sandagara branch of the Hakodate Main Line. A new station building was completed on 25 December 1950 and rebuilt again in March 1978. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Hokkaido. From 15 March 2014 all Hokuto/Super Hokuto limited expresses began stopping here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Mori is the junction where the Hakodate Main Line splits between the main route via Ōnuma-Kōen and the Sandagara branch via Oshima-Sandagara, although both routes serve Mori itself; the section from Mori to the Washinosu signal post is double-tracked. The station's well-known bento speciality is 'Ikameshi' (squid stuffed with rice).