History
Hakuyō Station opened on 1 December 1957 as a Japanese National Railways halt named after the nearby Kitami Hakuyō Senior High School, sitting on the Sekihoku Main Line in what was then the eastern edge of Kitami. With the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation the halt was promoted to a full station under JR Hokkaido. On 1 October 1992 the surrounding section was elevated and the station was relocated 600 m east toward Aishino, becoming a single-platform elevated stop served by local trains and the "Kitami" rapid. The station is unstaffed and chiefly serves students commuting to the local high school, the Kitami Institute of Technology, and the Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Hakuyō is the northernmost — and easternmost — elevated railway station in Japan.