Timetable information
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Location
History
Minami-Horonobe Station opened on 1 November 1959 on the Japanese National Railways Soya Main Line as an unstaffed halt between Yasuushi and Kami-Horonobe, serving local diesel-railcar traffic. It passed to JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. In August 2016 JR Hokkaido proposed closing it together with Shimonuma and Nukanan, but Horonobe Town stepped in to fund maintenance, and from April 2021 the town took over management using furusato-nōzei donations. On 3 July 2024, faced with new repair costs for the station building, Horonobe Town notified JR Hokkaido it would not fund maintenance for fiscal 2025, and the station closed on the 15 March 2025 timetable revision.
Notes
To mark 60 years since the station opened, Horonobe Town refurbished the waiting shelter on 13 October 2019 and painted Minami Hororin-san, the town's own image character for the station, on its exterior boards.
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: 2026-06-09