Shin-Totsukawa Station

Shin Totsukawa Station

新十津川駅
Station building (June 2007)
General information
LocationJapan
Coordinates43°32′45″N 141°52′27″E / 43.54577222°N 141.8742139°E / 43.54577222; 141.8742139
Owned by JR Hokkaido
Line(s)■ Sasshō Line
Distance76.5km from Sōen
Platforms1
Tracks1
History
Opened10 October 1931 (1931-10-10)
Closed17 April 2020 (2020-04-17) [1]
Passengers
2013-20178.4 average daily [2]
Station platform (August 2017)

Shin-Totsukawa Station (新十津川駅, Shin-Totsukawa-eki) was a railway station on the Sasshō Line in Shintotsukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).

Lines

Shin-Totsukawa Station was the old terminus of the Sasshō Line from Sapporo, and is situated 76.5 km from the official starting point of the line at Sōen.[3]

Station layout

The station had a side platform serving one track. The station building was located next to the platform.

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Sasshō Line
Shimo-Toppu - Terminus

History

The station opened on 10 October 1931.[3]

In December 2018, it was announced that the station would be closed on May 7, 2020, along with the rest of the non-electrified section of the Sasshō Line.[4] The actual last service was on April 17, 2020, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "4月のメモ帳". The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese). No. 974. Denkisha Kenkyūkai Tetsudōtosho Kankōkai. July 2020. p. 153.
  2. ^ "札沼線(北海道医療大学・新十津川間）" (PDF).
  3. ^ a b 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 188. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.
  4. ^ "JR札沼線、北海道医療大学－新十津川間が廃止へ 2020年5月、地元と合意". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-06-07.
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