Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku

History

Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku Station opened on 1 December 1981 as Daigakumae Station, a temporary halt requested by Higashi-Nihon Gakuen University (now the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido), which had moved nearby in 1974. It was upgraded to a full station on 1 April 1982 and passed to JR Hokkaido at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The station was renamed to its present form on 16 March 1995 to track the university's own renaming a year earlier, and a dedicated turn-back bay platform opened on 1 December 1995. Electric services from Sapporo began on 1 June 2012 with electrification of the Sasshō Line as far as this station. Following sustained passenger decline on the non-electrified section beyond, that segment to Shin-Totsukawa was closed on 7 May 2020, leaving this station as the line's northern terminus.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

JR Hokkaido has signalled it intends to rename the station again once the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido relocates the bulk of its operations to F Village in Kitahiroshima, currently planned for April 2028.