History
Oshima-Tōbetsu Station opened on 25 October 1930 as a general station on the state-owned Kamiiso Line, which was renamed the Esashi Line in November 1936. The station passed to Japanese National Railways in 1949 and to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Freight handling ended in 1970 and parcel service in 1984; the station became unstaffed at the end of 1987, with simple-agent ticket sales continuing at a nearby shop. In July 1988 a new combined station-and-post-office building opened. Operations on the Goryōkaku–Kikonai segment of the Esashi Line transferred from JR Hokkaido to South Hokkaido Railway Company on 26 March 2016, the day the Hokkaido Shinkansen opened.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building, shared with Oshima-Tōbetsu Post Office, is styled after a monastery in deference to the nearby Trappist Monastery, and houses a ceramic statue of a saint in the waiting room.