Timetable information
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Location
History
Ombetsu Station is a JR Hokkaido station on the Nemuro Main Line in the city of Kushiro, located 128.8 km from the line's starting point at Shintoku, and also functions as a JR Freight depot. It opened on 1 March 1903 as a station of the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō, and was transferred to the Ministry of Railways on 1 April 1905. The station was severely damaged in an airstrike on 14 July 1945. Freight operations were containerised in 1984. Following the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station came under JR Hokkaido and JR Freight, and full staffing was withdrawn in 2021.
Notes
Onbetsu Station was severely damaged in a wartime airstrike on 14 July 1945.
Sources
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Last updated: 2026-05-18