Nishi-Obihiro

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Nishi-Obihiro Station opened on 8 September 1907 as Fushiko Station (伏古駅) on the Japanese Government Railways and was rebuilt in October 1928. It was renamed to Nishi-Obihiro on 10 November 1954 to reflect its position west of central Obihiro. Freight operations ended on 20 May 1970 and the station became unstaffed on 2 October 1971. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. During the Sekishō and Nemuro line speed-up works the turnouts were replaced with elastic switches in fiscal 1995, and a rebuilt station building was opened on 31 October 2001.

Between the platforms and the station building, the trackbed of a now-removed private siding once linked Obihiro Freight Station to the Memuro Sugar Refinery, requiring passengers to use an overpass that doubles as a free public passageway crossing the line.