History
Chiyogaoka Station opened on 1936-09-10 as a general station, when the Ministry of Railways inserted it between Biei and Bebetsu (later Nishi-Kagura) on the Furano Line. It passed to Japanese National Railways in June 1949. Freight handling ended on 1962-11-01, and parcel handling and staff on 1983-09-01, after which the station has been unstaffed. At the 1987-04-01 privatisation it passed to JR Hokkaido. In November 2003 the Furano Line was used for a week-long feasibility trial of an Asahikawa Airport rail-and-bus link, with free shuttle buses timed to trains running between the station and the airport about four kilometres away. The station has two side platforms connected by a level crossing on the tracks; the station building sits to the right when facing Furano.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's hilly hinterland was once an Imperial estate (goryōchi); when the land was parcelled out to private owners, part of it was named Chiyogaoka — 'thousand-generations hill' — in the hope that the area would prosper for a thousand generations and beyond.