Ashibetsu

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Ashibetsu Station opened on 10 November 1913 as Shimo-Ashibetsu Station, a general station on the Kushiro Main Line (today's Nemuro Main Line) when the Takikawa–Shimo-Furano (now Furano) section was completed. From 1920 a light railway laid for the Ashibetsu colliery — later bought out by Mitsubishi Mining, which closed it in 1933 — brought coal to the station, and from 1940 the Mitsui Mining private railway ran from here to Nishi-Ashibetsu (later Mitsui-Ashibetsu), becoming the Mitsui Ashibetsu Railway in 1960 and carrying passengers from 1949 to 1972. The current building was rebuilt in March 1947. The station was renamed Ashibetsu on 1 May 1946 following a district renaming. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation. The Mitsui Ashibetsu Railway closed entirely on 26 March 1989. The Midori no Madoguchi counter closed on 25 March 2016, and the city of Ashibetsu has run a simple-commission ticket office on the premises since 1 April 2016.

On 18 August 1954 the imperial train carrying Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun from Obihiro toward Otaru stopped at Ashibetsu, where a station-front welcome ceremony was held.