Bakkai Station
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On 14 March 2025, the station was closed due to low number of passengers.[3]
Lines
Bakkai Station was served by the Script error: No such module "convert". Sōya Main Line from Template:STN to Template:STN, and lay 245.0 km from the starting point of the line at Asahikawa.[4] The station was numbered "W78".
Layout
Bakkai Station was a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms, which formed a passing loop on the otherwise single-track line. The platforms were linked by a level crossing for passengers. The station was unstaffed, and was the northernmost unstaffed station in Japan during the years before its closure.
Platforms
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Bakkai Station building (From the platform side)
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The platforms in October 2017
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The passenger level crossing between the platforms in October 2017
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Signboard
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History
The station opened on 25 June 1924 with the opening of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Teshio North Line between Wakkanai Station (now Minami-Wakkanai Station) and Kabutonuma Station. On 25 September 1926 the Teshio South Line and Teshio North Line were merged and the line name was changed to Teshio Line, and on 1 April 1930 the Teshio Line was incorporated into the Sōya Main Line .[4] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Hokkaido took over control of the station.[4]
In June 2023, this station was selected to be among 42 stations on the JR Hokkaido network to be slated for abolition owing to low ridership.[5] The closure took place on 14 March 2025.[3]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 3.8 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
The station was located in the Kutonebetsu district on a hill approximately two kilometers inland away from the coastal settlement of Bakkai (former Bakkai Village). In front of the station, weeds grew everywhere except the road, and there were only a few dilapidated houses and sheds, no stores. Hokkaido Highway 510 Bakkai Kabutonuma Station Line passed near the station.
See also
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- Sōya Main Line
- Stations of Hokkaido Railway Company
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- Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924
- Wakkanai
- Railway stations in Japan closed in 2025