Ginzan

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Ginzan Station opened on 29 January 1905 as a general station of the private Hokkaido Railway, passed to the national network on 1 July 1907 with the line's nationalisation, and was absorbed into the Hakodate Main Line on 12 October 1909. Around 1913 a horse-drawn tramway and a rope conveyor were built to bring ore from the Meiji Mine in Akaigawa down to the station for transhipment to the Kunitomi smelter. Freight handling ended on 15 March 1972, and parcels on 1 March 1982, when the station was unstaffed. The passing loop was removed on 1 November 1986 but reinstated on 3 November 1988 using the former down track and platform. JR Hokkaido took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. In April 2004 the platforms were lengthened, removing the need for door-cutting on regular trains.

The station building featured in the 1970 Tora-san film 'Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Bōkyō-hen'; today the only JR Hokkaido station with off-premises ticket commissioning sells its tickets at a shop a few minutes' walk away.