Tōbetsu

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Tōbetsu Station opened on 20 November 1934 on the Sasshō Line, then operated by Japanese Government Railways. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, operations passed to JR Hokkaido. The station's two staggered side platforms — one of which forms a bay platform configuration on the otherwise single-track line east of Ainosato-Kyōikudai — can accept six-car electrified consists, and electric services began on 1 June 2012 following electrification of the Sasshō Line between Sapporo and Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku. The station was renamed from its long-standing Ishikari-Tōbetsu form to simply Tōbetsu on 12 March 2022, reflecting Tōbetsu's establishment as the dominant local civic identifier. It remains staffed with a Midori no Madoguchi office and accepts Kitaca IC cards.

Tōbetsu carries the station code G13, placing it directly south of the line's current northern terminus Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku Station; the station also manages the unattended Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku as an extension of its operations.