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Yūfutsu Station

railway station in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ11399956 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yūfutsu Station (勇払駅, Yūfutsu-eki) is a railway station on the Hidaka Main Line in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).

History

Tomakomai Light Railway opened the station on October 1, 1913. On December 2, 1962, the station was moved to the present location due to rerouting of the line.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yūfutsu Station” is railway station in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yūfutsu, Station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913-10-01. For this dossier, Yūfutsu, Station and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11399956. Authority coordinates are 42.632, 141.728. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913 and 1962.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Yūfutsu Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yūfutsu Station primary sources, Yūfutsu Station archive and Yūfutsu research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Yūfutsu Station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Yūfutsu Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.