[2] Both local and the Rapid Niseko Liner [jp] services stop at the station.

[3] When the Hokkaido Shinkansen opens in the spring of 2031, the Hakodate Main Line will be truncated and the section of track between Oshamambe and Otaru will be abolished.

The station was opened on 15 October 1904 by the private Hokkaido Railway as an intermediate station during a phase of expansion when its track from Hakodate to Neppu was extended to link up with stretches of track further north to provide through traffic from Hakodate to Otaru.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, control of the station passed to JR Hokkaido.

A curve, where the track has now been lifted from, can still clearly be seen north of Kutchan Station from satellite imagery.