Station

Shiokari

塩狩

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Shiokari
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Shiokari Station began on 5 September 1916 as a signal post on the Railway Bureau's Sōya Line, was reclassified a signal station on 1 April 1922, and was promoted to a full passenger stop on 25 November 1924 as settler traffic and the nearby Shiokari Onsen built up custom. The station passed to Japanese National Railways in 1949 and was fully unstaffed by 1986. JR Hokkaido inherited it at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In April 2021, after JR Hokkaido flagged the stop for possible closure, the town of Wassamu took over maintenance, with running costs covered mostly by furusato-nōzei donations.

Notes

A monument in the station grounds, erected in 1969, commemorates Masao Nagano, the Railway Bureau official killed in the 1909 runaway-coach accident near the summit of Shiokari Pass — which happened before the station opened; the incident inspired Ayako Miura's novel Shiokari Pass, serialised from 1966.

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