Deep Spots in Taiki Town

📍Site of the Former JNR Hiroo Line Taiki Station

In Taiki Town, you can still find the remains of the station building from the Hiroo Line, the railway that linked Obihiro and Hiroo and ran until 1987.
Taiki Station opened in 1930, and at its peak it reportedly handled more than 1,000 passengers a day.

The former track area is now a plaza called Taiki Traffic Park, but the station building still stands.
You cannot enter the building, but looking through the windows you can see the ticket gate and waiting room still preserved inside.
The platform area still shows the station sign and a signal lever.

In Hakubayashi Park, north of Taiki Town Hall, a steam locomotive, No. 59611, which served around Hokkaido and ran on the Hiroo Line until 1975, is on display.
It was installed thanks to efforts by local steam locomotive enthusiasts.

Why not come and feel the traces of the railway that once ran through Taiki Town?