History
Gakuden Station opened on 1958-03-25 as a Japanese National Railways station between Furano and Naka-Furano, added together with Shikauchi to coincide with the start of diesel-railcar service on the Furano Line. It has handled passengers only and has been unstaffed since opening. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. The unstaffed station has a single side platform on the right when looking toward Furano, with a waiting room on the platform itself; some Furano Line trains pass through without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name Gakuden ('school fields') reflects that the surrounding land was used around 1896 as practice farmland for Sapporo Agricultural College, the forerunner of Hokkaido University.