Station

Hassamu

発寒

Hassamu
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Hassamu Station opened on 1 November 1986 as a JNR passenger-only stop on the Hakodate Main Line, filling the long gap between Teine and Kotoni. According to the commemorative monument at the south entrance, a local landowner donated the parcel because the inconvenience of having no station between the two existing halts had become acute. The station passed to JR Hokkaido at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, became directly staffed in April 1988, and switched to a contracted-operations model in April 2001 under what is now Hokkaidō JR Service Net. Automatic ticket gates entered service in December 1998, Kitaca card readers in October 2008, and barrier-free works concluded on 25 February 2010.

Notes

When the Tōzai Line was extended to Miyanosawa in 1999 the new subway stop one block away was originally to be called Hassamu Station, but it became Hassamu-Minami because the JR name was already in use here.

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