History
Satsukari Station opened on 1930-10-25 as a general-purpose stop on the Japanese Government Railways Kamiiso Line, which was renamed Esashi Line in 1936. Freight and parcel handling ended in 1970, when the station also became unstaffed. JR Hokkaido inherited it at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. On 1988-03-13 the Goryōkaku–Kikonai section was electrified and the platform was rebuilt from a single side platform to two opposing side platforms ahead of the Seikan Tunnel opening. After the closure of the Kikonai–Esashi section in 2014, Satsukari briefly became Hokkaido's southernmost unstaffed station before transferring to the South Hokkaido Railway Company on 2016-03-26.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The name is thought to descend from the Ainu sirar-tukar, meaning the near side of the rocks, a reference to the rocky shoreline below.