History
ROYCE' Town Station was built as a petition station after the town of Tōbetsu and chocolate-maker Royce' Confect jointly requested a new infill stop on the Sasshō Line in January 2020. Royce' funded the platform and station building at roughly ¥930 million, while Tōbetsu paid about ¥600 million for the station plaza. Construction began in spring 2021 and the station itself opened on 12 March 2022 — the first new on-line station opened by JR Hokkaido since Nagareyama-Onsen in 2002, and the first new Sasshō Line stop since Hachiken in 1988. Soft ground delayed the surrounding plaza, which entered service in December 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station's blue exterior matches Royce' brand colour, while the interior is finished in birch — the town tree of Tōbetsu.