Moshiri

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Moshiri Station (number T24) is on the JR Hokkaido Nemuro Main Line in Akabira, Hokkaido. It opened on 28 December 1918 as a freight-only station of the Railway Board, three days after the trial run of the spur to the Mojiri coal mine — a spur laid at the same time as the station and funded by Ōkura Mining Co., which had been spun off from the Ōkura-gumi conglomerate to work that mine — and was promoted to a full passenger station on 15 July 1926. Akabira, in the central Sorachi area of the Sorachi Subprefecture, was once a major coal-mining centre with a 1960 peak population of 59,430; the decline of the coal industry has cut that figure sharply, and Akabira has been rebuilding its economy around tourism that makes use of its preserved zuri-yama waste mounds and pithead structures as coal-mining heritage.

On 1 November 1955, a gas explosion at the Mojiri coal-mine — the same colliery the station had been built to serve — killed 71 workers, and another gas explosion at the Yūbetsu Mojiri mine on 2 April 1969 killed 19 and triggered the mine's eventual closure.