Minami-Chitose

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The station opened on 1 October 1980 as Chitose-Kūkō (Chitose Airport) Station, the first JNR airport-connecting station in Japan, timed with the electrification of the Chitose Line. A 248-metre pedestrian bridge originally linked it across National Route 36 to the airport terminal. The Sekishō Line began running from the station on 1 October 1981. Control passed to JR Hokkaido on 1 April 1987. When the new airport terminal opened in 1992 the airport-line branch and Shin-Chitose Airport Station opened on 1 July 1992, and Chitose-Kūkō was renamed Minami-Chitose the same day. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 27 December 1998 and Kitaca IC support followed on 25 October 2008.

When opened in 1980, the station boasted Hokkaido's first up-only escalator in a railway station, plus an airline-style open-counter ticket booth and a flap-style departure board of the kind then used at Shinkansen stations.