Attoko

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Attoko Station opened on 25 November 1919 when the Imperial Railway Bureau extended the Kushiro Main Line (now the Nemuro Main Line) east from Akkeshi; it was the first railway station in the Nemuro Subprefecture. With the extension to Nishi-Wada in November 1920 it became an intermediate station, and from 1 December 1933 it served as the junction for the Shibetsu Line. A colonisation railway ran from the station front to Shibetsu (1925) and later to Kamifūren. The current third-generation building, doubling as a bus waiting room, was opened in November 1989 after the Shibetsu Line closed on 30 April 1989. Freight handling ended in 1979 and parcels in 1984. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation, the simple-commission ticket office closed on 1 September 1995, and the station has been unstaffed since. The 26 March 2016 timetable change reduced the layout to a single track.

Since 1964 students of the nearby Attoko Junior High School (now Attoko Elementary and Junior High School) have run an annual 'Suzuran Okuri' event in early June, handing lilies-of-the-valley through the carriage windows to passing passengers — a tradition begun by the school's principal and student council in response to a Hokkaido government tourism campaign.