Station

Bettoga

別当賀

Bettoga
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Bettoga Station opened on 10 November 1920 with the Ministry of Railways' extension of the Kushiro Main Line (later Nemuro Main Line) between Atsutoko and Nishi-Wada. Freight handling was discontinued on 15 July 1979 and luggage handling on 1 February 1984. The station building was rebuilt as a converted freight wagon shelter in 1986, the same year the position was made unstaffed under simple-trust operation. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, operations passed to JR Hokkaido. Simple-trust operation ended and the station became fully unattended on 1 April 1992. In June 2023 it was named in a JR Hokkaido shortlist of 42 stations under consideration for abolition because of persistently low ridership.

Notes

The station name derives from the Ainu phrase "pet-utka", meaning a place where shallow river water swirls over rocks.

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