Shibecha

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Shibecha Station opened on 15 September 1927 with the Ministry of Railways' completion of the Senmō Main Line between Kushiro and Shibecha. From 29 October 1936 it became the junction for the Shibetsu Line, a 69.4 km branch reaching Nemuro-Shibetsu Station until that line's abolition on 30 April 1989. Freight handling ended on 20 May 1983 and luggage handling on 1 February 1984. On 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR Hokkaido with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The current station building was rebuilt in 1974 and refurbished in 1999, with day-to-day station work outsourced from 1997 onwards, currently to Hokkaido JR Service Network. Shibecha now serves as the seasonal terminus for the popular SL Fuyu-no-Shitsugen winter steam excursion.

As a reminder that the station was once the junction for the Shibetsu Line, a wooden object shaped like a steam locomotive still stands on the platform at track 3 (formerly track 4).