Akkeshi

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Akkeshi Station is on the JR Hokkaido Nemuro Main Line (Hanasaki Line section) in Akkeshi, Akkeshi District, Hokkaido. It opened on 1 December 1917 with the Railway Board's Kushiro–Hama-Akkeshi extension of the Kushiro Main Line (later the Nemuro Main Line), handling passengers and small parcels while the freight-only Hama-Akkeshi Station handled bulk goods. When the line extended on to Atsutoko on 25 November 1919, the spur to Hama-Akkeshi became a branch line; that freight spur was abolished on 15 November 1982. The station passed to JR Hokkaido at the 1987 privatisation. Akkeshi, on Hokkaido's southeastern coast in the Kushiro Subprefecture, encloses the deep natural harbour of Akkeshi Bay opening onto Lake Akkeshi; it is recorded in the journal of the Dutch East India Company's expedition ship Castricum (Captain Maerten Gerritsz de Vries), which anchored in Akkeshi Bay for 18 days in 1643 — the oldest known foreign written record of life at Akkeshi — and is one of the three Ezo-sankan official temple sites (Kokutaiji, founded 1804).

On 11 April 1850 the Australian whaling ship Eemont was wrecked off the Suehiro coast and locals rescued the 32-strong crew — a fact rediscovered through Endō Masako's 1981 book "Nazo no Ikokusen" (The Mysterious Foreign Ship) that led directly to Akkeshi's sister-city tie with Clarence (Tasmania) signed on 9 February 1982.