Timetable information
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Location
History
Hagino Station was established on 25 December 1907 as the Imperial Railway Agency's Shiretoko Signal Station. It was upgraded to a freight station and opened as Shiretoko Station on 15 October 1909, and it began passenger service and became a general station on 1 April 1911. It was renamed Hagino Station on 1 April 1942 to match a change in the place name, and it was rebuilt into its current, second-generation station building in October 1958. Operation of a dedicated line to Daishowa Paper's (later Nippon Paper's) Shiraoi plant began around 1960, and the station also served as a freight hub. It became a contracted station on 1 April 1984 and became unstaffed on 1 November 1986; JR Hokkaido and JR Freight took it over at the 1 April 1987 privatization and division of Japanese National Railways. Following the abolition of the dedicated line on 13 March 2008 and the discontinuation of freight-train service two days later, the contracted operation also ended on 1 April 2011, leaving the station unstaffed.
Notes
The station's original name Shiretoko was changed to Hagino in 1942 to match a local place-name commemorating Emperor Meiji's 1881 visit, during which he is said to have admired the bush-clover blooms in the area.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Mister0124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18