Kami-Oboro

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Kami-Oboro Station opened on 1 December 1917 as a general station when the Imperial Railway Bureau extended the Kushiro Main Line (now the Nemuro Main Line) east from Kushiro to Hama-Akkeshi. Forestry and coal mining made the area prosperous, and several private tramways once fed coal to the station's loading bays: a 4.5 km trolley line from the Yachiyo Mine around 1918, and horse tramways of 3.5 km from the Mitsuboshi Mine and 5 km from the Kushiro Coal Mine's Aoba works around 1933. The 1943 order consolidating small and medium coal mines closed the mines. The station building was rebuilt in December 1935. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1974, parcels on 1 February 1984, and the station became unstaffed on 1 November 1986. JR Hokkaido took over at the 1987 privatisation.

The name Kami-Oboro means 'upper Oboro' and indicates the station's position upstream along the Oboro River.