Station

Yūchi

勇知

Yūchi
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Yūchi Station opened on 25 June 1924 with the Japanese Government Railways Teshio Kita Line between Wakkanai (now Minami-Wakkanai) and Kabutonuma. The line was renamed the Teshio Line in 1926 and absorbed into the Soya Main Line on 1 April 1930, with operation passing to Japanese National Railways in 1949. Freight handling ended on 15 November 1982, parcel service on 1 February 1984, and the station was unstaffed from 10 November 1984. In July 1985 the original station building was replaced by a converted Yo3500 series brake-van structure standing on the old foundations. JR Hokkaido took over at the 1987 privatisation; following the closure of neighbouring Bakkai in March 2025 Yūchi became the northernmost unstaffed station in Japan.

Notes

A short narrow-gauge "colonisation" railway built for agricultural development ran 9.8 km from behind the station to the lower Yūchi River from 1947 until its 1958 closure; it was horse-drawn throughout its working life.

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