Train service
No publicly available departure data for this station.
Location
History
Hosooka Station opened on 1927-09-15 as a general station of the Ministry of Railways Senmō Main Line when the section between Kushiro and Shibecha was inaugurated. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1973-02-05 with the cutback to a simple consigned operation, and the last staff were withdrawn on 1984-02-01. The stop passed to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1987-04-01, and the original 1927 building was replaced in June 1993 by the present 25 m² log-cabin shelter. From 2023-03-18 it was redesignated a temporary station with winter trains no longer stopping, and now operates seasonally from 25 April to 30 November each year.
Notes
In FY2022 Hosooka was used by an average of 0.2 passengers a day, and the modern building is a log cabin within Kushiro-shitsugen National Park that doubles as the end-point of canoe descents on the Kushiro River.
Sources
Last updated: 2026-05-18