Station

Hassamu

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Hassamu
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Timetable information

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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

The conspicuous overbridge at Hassamu is a free public passageway maintained by the City of Sapporo rather than by the railway, so JR Hokkaido's own station premises are comparatively small. The station stands in an industrial district whose character has changed since the shopping centre now known as Aeon Mall Sapporo Hassamu opened on 26 October 2006; the nearest subway station, Miyanosawa on the Tōzai Line, is the designated alternative-transport connection.

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