Sunagawa

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Sunagawa Station opened on 5 July 1891 with the Hokkaidō Colliery Railway's Sorachi Line from Iwamizawa to Sunagawa and on to Utashinai, planned by the company as the junction of its trunk line and the branch into the Sorachi coalfield. The provisional name "Utashinai" was reassigned to the branch terminus, and Sunagawa became the central shipping point for coal from Utashinai and Kamisunagawa. It was nationalised in 1906; a private siding to Mitsui Mining's Sunagawa colliery at Kamisunagawa opened in 1918, and on 1 August 1926 it was taken into the Hakodate Main Line as the Kamisunagawa Branch Line, with passenger services from the same date. The Utashinai Line closed in April 1988 and the Kamisunagawa branch followed in May 1994. JR Hokkaido inherited the station in 1987, and Kitaca became usable here on 16 March 2024.

Although the local name 'Sunagawa' is now applied to both station and city, the railway adopted it first: at the time the line was planned in 1889 the area was still generally called by the older Ainu-derived name Otashinai, and the municipality only became Sunagawa Village in 1903.