Chikabumi

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Chikabumi Station opened on 11 August 1899 as the Chikabumi signal stopping-place on the Hokkaido Government Railway, becoming the Chikabumi signal station in 1905 and a full general station on 11 January 1911. Russia's southward expansion had alarmed the Meiji government, which from June 1899 moved the Seventh Division from Sapporo to Asahikawa; a 4.6 km military spur was built from this station to serve the cantonment in Takasu Village. After the war 2.9 km of it was kept as a freight branch to the newly built Asahikawa-Ōmachi freight station, opened on 15 January 1950 and closed on 1 October 1978; its trackbed is now a walkway. The Takikawa–Asahikawa section was electrified with alternating current in 1969 and the Chikabumi–Asahikawa section was double-tracked in 1968. JR Hokkaido and JR Freight inherited the station in 1987, the building was rebuilt in 1989, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 July 2006. Kitaca IC card service began on 16 March 2024, making this the northernmost Kitaca-enabled station in Japan.

When IC card Kitaca was rolled out at Chikabumi on 16 March 2024, the station became the northernmost in Japan to accept the card.