Hama-Atsuma

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Hama-Atsuma Station is on the JR Hokkaido Hidaka Main Line in Hama-Atsuma, Atsuma Town, Yūfutsu District, Hokkaido (Iburi Subprefecture). It opened on 1 October 1913 as Atsuma Station (then read "azuma") of the Tomakomai Light Railway, was renamed Hama-Atsuma Station on 15 November 1925, and on 1 August 1927 — when the line was nationalised and renamed the Hidaka Line — its reading was changed to "hama-atsuma". The line was renamed the Hidaka Main Line on 1 November 1943. The station is the only railway station in Atsuma Town, but lies away from the town centre. Atsuma sits in the eastern part of the Iburi Subprefecture along the Atsuma River, which flows south from the Yūbari Mountains into the Pacific; the town was promoted to second-class town status in 1906 (under the village name Atsuma) and adopted town status in 1960, when it formally registered the reading "atsuma".

The Pacific coast at Hama-Atsuma is regarded as being among the best surfing spots in Hokkaido. The current car-body station building (built from a converted railway brake-van and once painted pink) was repainted in 2015 with a white-and-wave design based on ideas submitted by local elementary-school children.