Shikabe

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Today's Shikabe Station opened on 1 June 1945 as a general station on the new Sawara branch of the Hakodate Main Line. The same day, the original 'Shikabe Station' on the private Ōnuma Electric Railway, opened on 31 January 1929, was closed under the wartime 'non-essential lines' order. On 20 February 1949 the reborn postwar Ōnuma Electric Railway renamed its Shikabe-Onsen Station as 'Shikabe', so the JNR station was renamed Takamachi after old falconry posts in the area. After the second Ōnuma Electric Railway was withdrawn entirely in December 1952, the JNR station regained the Shikabe name on 20 December 1956. Freight ended on 1 May 1980, parcels on 1 February 1984, and the station was unstaffed and simply commissioned from 1 November 1984. JR Hokkaido inherited the station in 1987, and the simple commission lapsed on 1 April 2005, leaving the station fully unstaffed.

The place-name Shikabe is said to come from the Ainu word sikape meaning 'short-tailed albatross', once abundant in the area.