Kurisawa

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Kurisawa Station opened on 1 October 1894 as Kiyomappu Station, a general-traffic stop on the Hokkaido Colliery & Railway line between Kuriyama and Iwamizawa. The route was nationalised in 1906 and folded into the Muroran Main Line on 12 October 1909. The station building was renovated in 1916 and again in 1937, and the stop was renamed Kurisawa on 1 September 1949. Freight handling ended on 1 July 1972, the station was destaffed on 1 April 1984, and JR Hokkaido took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. A compact replacement building, still in use today, was completed in November 1989.

The original name Kiyomappu came from the Ainu "ki-oma-p" meaning a stream with reed grass; the present name Kurisawa is read either as a translation of Ainu "yam-o-nay" (chestnut-rich river) or as a literal reference to the chestnut trees once growing nearby.