History
Kunebetsu Station opened on 1913-09-15 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways Kamiiso Light Railway, which became the Kamiiso Line in 1922 and the Esashi Line in 1936. The depot was rebuilt in 1979 and again in 1991, and freight handling ended in 1961. The station passed from Japanese National Railways to JR Hokkaido on 1987-04-01 at privatisation, and electrification arrived in 1988 alongside the opening of the Seikan Tunnel's Kaikyō Line. On 2016-03-26 the Goryōkaku–Kikonai section was spun off from JR Hokkaido and the unstaffed station became part of the South Hokkaido Railway Company's Isaribi Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
It is the northernmost station operated by a Japanese third-sector railway company.