Hosooka

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Hosooka Station opened on 15 September 1927 as a general station of the Ministry of Railways Senmō Main Line when the section between Kushiro and Shibecha was inaugurated. Freight and parcel handling ended on 5 February 1973 with the cutback to a simple consigned operation, and the last staff were withdrawn on 1 February 1984. The stop passed to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the original 1927 building was replaced in June 1993 by the present 25 m² log-cabin shelter. From 18 March 2023 it was redesignated a temporary station with winter trains no longer stopping, and now operates seasonally from 25 April to 30 November each year.

In FY2022 Hosooka was used by an average of 0.2 passengers a day, and the modern building is a log cabin within Kushiro-shitsugen National Park that doubles as the end-point of canoe descents on the Kushiro River.