Motomachi (Hokkaido)

Weekday departures: 316/day · Sat & holiday departures: 280/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:04 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (29)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Toho Line: Shindo higashi ⇄ Kanjo dori higashi

Motomachi Station (number H03) is a Sapporo Municipal Subway station on the Tōhō Line in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido. It opened on 2 December 1988 with the Tōhō Line's inaugural Sakaemachi–Hōsui-Susukino segment — the station's pre-construction working title was "Hokkō-Higashi" — and platform-edge doors were activated on 9 March 2017. Higashi-ku, the city's second-most populous ward (after Kita-ku), traces its modern origins to 1866 when Ōtomo Kametarō began farming on the Fushiko-gawa under shogunate orders — the "Ōtomo-bori" channel he dug is the upstream origin of the Sōsei-gawa — and the area was incorporated into Sapporo with the 1955 merger of Sapporo-mura. Apple- and grape-growing gave way over the Meiji and Taishō eras to onion farming (notably the "Sapporo-ki" variety), and breweries — including the present-day Sapporo Beer Museum site — became part of the local industrial fabric.

The sugar refinery of Sapporo Seitō (Sapporo Sugar) began operating in the ward in 1888 — later the malt house of Sapporo Breweries and today the site of the Sapporo Beer Museum — and the "Sapporo-Naebo Industrial Heritage Group" of factories and memorial halls was selected as a Hokkaido Heritage item in 2004.