Shinkawa Station (Hokkaido)

Shinkawa Station (新川駅, Shinkawa-eki) is a railway station on the Sasshō Line in Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). The station is numbered G04.[1]

Shinkawa Station 新川駅
Location	Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido Japan
Operated by	JR Hokkaido
Line(s)	■ Sasshō Line (Gakuen Toshi Line)
Distance	3.7 km from Sōen
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	G04
History
Opened	1 November 1986
Passengers
FY2014	3,114 daily
Location
Shinkawa Station Location within Japan

Lines

Shinkawa Station is served by the Sasshō Line (Gakuen Toshi Line) from Sapporo to Shin-Totsukawa.

Station layout

The elevated station has two side platforms serving two tracks.[2] The station has automated ticket machines, automated turnstiles which accept Kitaca,[3] and a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Sasshō Line	for Sōen and Sapporo
2	■ Sasshō Line	for Ainosato-Kyōikudai and Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Sasshō Line
Hachiken (G03)		Local	Shin-Kotoni (G05)

History

The station opened on 1 November 1986.[4]

Electric services commenced from 1 June 2012, following electrification of the line between Sapporo and Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku.[2]

References

1. "JR Hokkaido Route Map" (PDF). Hokkaido Railway Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
2. Nomura, Yukihiro (August 2012). "札沼線電化事業の概要" [Outline of Sasshō Line Electrification Project]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 41 no. 340. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 4–9.
3. "Service Range Kitaca". JR Hokkaido. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
4. 新川駅バリアフリー情報 [Shinkawa Station accessibility information] (in Japanese). Japan: Hokkaido Railway Company. 2007. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

External links

• Station information and map (in Japanese)