Komagatake

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Komagatake Station opened on 28 June 1903 as Shukunobe Station on the Hokkaido Railway's Hongō (now Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto) – Mori extension, and was renamed Komagatake on 15 October 1904. The present name comes from its position at the foot of Mt. Komagatake (Hokkaidō Komagatake). It is today JR Hokkaido station H65 on the Hakodate Main Line, in Mori, Kayabe District, Hokkaidō. Mori Town is in the central area of the Oshima Subprefecture; the current municipality was newly established on 1 April 2005 through the merger of the former Mori Town with Sawara Town. The town is unusual in Hokkaidō for being read "mori-machi" rather than "mori-chō" — the only town in the prefecture to use "machi." Mt. Komagatake (1,131 m) lies in the eastern part of the town, with the coastal Route 5 and the Hakodate Main Line running along its western flank.

Mt. Komagatake's volcanic activity now bars most climbing routes from the station: the station was once the alighting point for climbers and the trailhead beside it is now closed, leaving only the Akaigawa Route from the sixth-station gate open, with entry restricted to the 1 June–31 October season and to the hours 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.