Sapporo Station

Sapporo Station 札幌駅
South side of the Sapporo Station
Location
Prefecture	Hokkaidō (See other stations in Hokkaidō)
City	Sapporo
Ward	Chūō
History
Year opened	1880
Rail services
Station number(s)	01, N06, H07
Operator(s)	JR Hokkaido, Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
Line(s)	Hakodate Main Line Chitose Line Sasshō Line Namboku Line Tōhō Line

Sapporo Station (札幌駅, Sapporo-eki^?) is a train station located in Kita-ku and Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is served by Hakodate Main Line and other lines of Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), and is also connected to the Sapporo Subway. The JR Hokkaido part is in Kita-ku while the Sapporo Subway part is in Chūō-ku.

Sapporo Station is the starting point and terminus for the limited expresses of JR Hokkaido. It also has the tallest building (JR Tower) in Hokkaido. Sapporo station is developing into a commercial center as large as Ōdōri and Susukino.

Lines and trains

The following lines and trains pass through or terminate at Sapporo Station:

JR Hokkaido

• Hakodate Main Line

  Okhotsk limited express (Sapporo - Abashiri)

  Sarobetsu limited express (Sapporo - Wakkanai)

  Super Kamui limited express (Sapporo - Asahikawa)

  Super Sōya limited express (Sapporo - Wakkanai)

  Ishikari Liner rapid service (Otaru - Sapporo - Takikawa)

  Niseko Liner rapid service (Rankoshi, Kutchan - Sapporo)

• Chitose Line

  Hokuto limited express (Hakodate - Sapporo)

  Super Hokuto limited express (Hakodate - Sapporo)

  Super Ōzora limited express (Sapporo - Kushiro)

  Super Tokachi limited express (Sapporo - Obihiro)

  Suzuran limited express (Muroran - Sapporo)

  Cassiopeia all sleeping car overnight limited express (Ueno - Sapporo)

  Hokutosei all sleeping car overnight limited express (Ueno - Sapporo)

  Twilight Express all sleeping car overnight limited express (Osaka - Sapporo)

  Hamanasu overnight express (Aomori - Sapporo)

  Airport rapid service (Shin-Chitose-Kuko - Sapporo - Otaru)

• Sasshō Line (Gakuen Toshi Line)

Sapporo City Transportation Bureau

• Namboku Line
• Tōhō Line

Layout

Sapporo Station consists of five platforms that are raised above street level. These raised platforms serve 10 tracks which run in an east-west direction. Two concourses run north-south below the platforms. It has a commercial facility called Paseo under the ground and JR Tower on the south side of the station.

When the Hokkaido Shinkansen is extended to Sapporo Station, tracks 1 and 2 will be used for the Shinkansen trains.^{[citation needed]}

History

A reduced-size replica of Sapporo Station 1908

Sapporo Station was opened in 1880 as a Horonai Railway's terminus. A new station building was built in 1881 and it was enlarged as Sapporo developed.

In 1908, the station building was rebuilt because of a fire in 1907. The restored building can be found in the Historical Village of Hokkaidō in Nopporo Forest Park.

The third reconstruction was finished in 1951 and the Sapporo Subway was opened in 1971. An underground shopping center was started in 1972 and a commercial building was opened on the east side of the station in 1978.

Until the 1970s, many passengers from Honshu got off at the station where porters waited for them with the flags of their hotels. However, the number of passengers traveling from Honshu by plane exceeded the number traveling by train in 1977.

The current building was built in 2003. Sapporo Station is now the center of transportation in Hokkaido.

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Sōen		Hakodate Main Line		Naebo
Terminus		Chitose Line		Naebo
Sōen		Sassho Line		Terminus
Kita 12-jō		Namboku Line		Ōdōri
Kita 13-jō-Higashi		Toho Line		Ōdōri

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

Coordinates: 43°04′07″N 141°21′03″E / 43.06861°N 141.35083°E / 43.06861; 141.35083