Higashi-Asahikawa

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Higashi-Asahikawa Station (station number A32) is on the JR Hokkaido Sekihoku Main Line in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. It opened on 4 November 1922 with the section of the original Sekihoku Line between Shin-Asahikawa and Aibetsu; its original reading was "Higashi-Asahigawa" and was changed to "Higashi-Asahikawa" on 13 March 1988, simultaneously with the readings of Asahikawa and Shin-Asahikawa stations. Asahikawa lies near the centre of Hokkaido in the Kamikawa Basin and, with a population of about 310,000, is a designated Core City and the second-most populous city in Hokkaido after Sapporo; it is the seat of the Kamikawa Subprefecture and serves as the economic, industrial, and cultural centre of Dōhoku (northern Hokkaido), and the commercial and logistics hub for the wider Okhotsk and northern Sorachi regions.

Asahikawa holds the all-time Japanese national low-temperature record: the temperature dropped to −41.0 °C on 25 January 1902 — an official observation by the Japan Meteorological Agency that has stood unbroken for over a century.